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faux pas
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  • If Carter made a social faux pas or met people he didn't like, he could just move on!†  (source)
  • Unsure how to act in the company of a divine presence, this living reincarnation of an ancient and illustrious lama, I was terrified of unwittingly giving offense or committing some irredeemable faux pas.†  (source)
  • But who knew he could be so unreasonable over such an innocent faux pas?†  (source)
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  • Well, refusing would certainly be what Grandmother called a Faux Pas.†  (source)
  • Pardon the faux pas.†  (source)
  • The room had gone still, everyone watching him with amazed disbelief, as if he were committing some embarrassing social faux pas.†  (source)
  • After my initial faux pas in the dining room, it didn't even occur to me that I was a candidate, but one Saturday night in the common room Nina beckoned to me.†  (source)
  • He left not long after that, to an uneasy silence that made me feel like I had dragged my sleeve through the peach cobbler or committed some other terrible faux pas.†  (source)
  • Besides, do you have any idea what a high school faux pas that is?†  (source)
  • "True," I said, hoping to redeem myself from whatever faux pas had drawn that strange look.†  (source)
  • My faux pas was so palpably obvious, so idiotic and unpardonable, that to ignore it would show me to be an even greater fool, if possible, than I was already.†  (source)
  • Over this trouble, solitude, danger, heartbreak of the disaster, there blows suddenly home-town familiarity, and even a faux pas about the nickname.†  (source)
  • I don't know why I make faux pas.†  (source)
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