faux pas English

Meaning faux pas meaning

What does faux pas mean?

— noun a socially awkward or tactless act

What other words have the same or similar meaning as faux pas?

mistake misstep blunder error solecism slip gaucherie gaffe trip stumble negligence mis-step indiscretion inadvertence fault

What do people use faux pas to talk about?

How do I use faux pas in a sentence?

He committed a faux pas when he asked whether she was pregnant.

Tom made a faux pas.

This is my day of faux pas.

I seem to have made a faux pas.

A faux-pas, and that's it. Here, all the girls made at least one.

But a faux pas of this kind, if that is what it was, reflects a mentality that places power over law.

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