bon mot
Example Sentences
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Wordplay, aphorisms and bon mots were Stoppard’s signature.
From Los Angeles Times
The casually tossed-off insults, morbid asides, petty bon mots and arch affectations toe a treacherous line, constantly threatening to become insufferable.
From Washington Post
My bon mot read, “It’s not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters.”
From Seattle Times
Whether she's the one tweeting or it's actually her niece tapping those bon mots into her phone, who care?
From Salon
Brilliant, arrogant, indisputably foreign, Pünd prides himself on understanding the inner workings of the human psyche, and is prone to dropping aphoristic bon mots.
From New York Times
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