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pis aller

noun as in makeshift

noun as in mixed blessing

noun as in stopgap

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Example Sentences

If pis aller sounds ominous, well, it is.

When I wouldn't take her place, a pis aller merely.

I don't offer you my work as a pis aller.

Substitutes for butcher’s meat too often suggest the purely vegetarian dish that to most people is but a pis aller.

It was nothing to either Herbert or me, for we both found Mrs. Day a much more lively pis aller in conversation than Eleanor.

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

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