mot juste
Example Sentences
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Gainsbourg is bilingual, but French is her first language; she pauses occasionally in our conversation to search around for le mot juste.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2019
And as Barnum ended nearly a century of trying to edit that sense of wonder into the mot juste, he finally nailed it at the end.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019
In January, when PhD students jostle for jobs at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, a “market” might seem the mot juste.
From Economist ● Nov. 24, 2016
They all try to describe James’s distinctive manner of speaking, which was an extremely deliberate, pause-filled, somewhat stammering effort to grasp le mot juste.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 21, 2016
I decided that 'dim' was the mot juste for him.
From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm
