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comme il faut

adjective as in proper

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Kissing thin air is not comme il faut, especially among Europeans.

He has even dated an Israeli—not exactly comme il faut behavior among Arab leaders.

There is a young man, very bien, very comme il faut, who demands her hand and who thinks of nothing but her.

I sit there beside her with nothing to do, not even a stocking to mend; she doesn't think that comme il faut.

Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society, as we must be.

If it be put on with a recherch air—if its folds be correct, and its set comme il faut—then he may defy fate.

The Swiss governess referred in so many words to him in matters of comme il faut as a model.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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