comme il faut

Example Sentences

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It was not quite comme il faut that the Barons should presume to speak to the boy.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

He never met her but kept in touch by phone for long stretches from 1977 to 2003, out of a genteel sense of comme il faut, according to his deposition.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2013

Ms. Caldwell makes everything Alice does seem comme il faut — and that includes keeping a copy of Mr. Adjmi’s text in front of her.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2011

A trace this side of true gentility, A soupfon, a sous-soup�on, just below The absolute apogee of comme il faut?

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course she has no idea of going on the stage; she speaks with horror of the theatre, and thinks a dramatic career not at all comme il faut.

From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip