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savoir-faire
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  • He was painfully aware that he lacked the ecclesiastical aplomb and savoir-faire that enabled so many of his colleagues in other faiths and sects to get ahead.†  (source)
  • A wave of disbelief swept over me (She is actually grabbing me there, I thought) but I tried to affect a saving savoir-faire.†  (source)
  • Schwartz in particular irritated him by his jocularity, vivacity, and savoir-faire, which reminded him of what he himself had been ten years ago.†  (source)
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At four there were refreshments in a lunch-room, and this time they paid an even smaller per cent on the total cost; something about the appearance and savoir-faire of the crowd made the thing go, and they were not pursued.†  (source)
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