faux pas
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
faux pas
- An embarrassing or tactless blunder (especially used in social situations and contexts); a misstep.
- 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 2
- A saint after repentance will forgive himself for a sin; a man about town will never forgive himself for a faux pas.
- 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 2
- (a mistake) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, misstep, slip, stumble, thinko, Freudian slip
- See also Thesaurus:error
- French: faux pas, (colloquial) impair
- German: Fauxpas
- Italian: passo falso
- Russian: беста́ктность
- Spanish: (informally) metida de pata, metedura de pata
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