arriere-pensee
Example Sentences
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The Girondists alone had an arrière-pensée in their apparent favour towards him.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
Nor was there any warrant for imputing to him dishonesty of purpose or arrière-pensée.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John
Emerson uses the word here in the same sense as the French arrière-pensée, a mental reservation.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
But the needy poet may have had some arrière-pensée.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
It may be regarded as highly improbable that she will maintain honourably and with no arrière-pensée the obligations undertaken in the interests of German commerce in Morocco.
From Germany and the Next War by Bernhardi, Friedrich von
