breach of etiquette

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  • 62faux pas — ‚fəʊ pɑː (French) false step , embarrassing social blunder, breach of etiquette …

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  • 63faux pas —    (foh PAH) [French: false step] An embarrassing social blunder; a breach of etiquette; a mistake …

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  • 64mistake — 1. noun I assumed it had been a mistake Syn: error, fault, inaccuracy, omission, slip, blunder, miscalculation, misunderstanding, oversight, misinterpretation, gaffe, faux pas, solecism; informal slip up, boo boo, blooper, boner, goof, f …

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  • 65soil — soil, dirty, sully, tarnish, foul, befoul, smirch, besmirch, grime, begrime can all mean to make or become unclean. Soil basically implies fundamental defilement or pollution (as of the mind or spirit) {why war soils and disarranges whatever it… …

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  • 66gaucherie — n 1. blunder, Fr. faux pas. misbehavior, bad job; botch, botchery, bungle; crudity, vulgarity; breach of etiquette, social slip, gaffe. 2. gracelessness, uncouthness, bad taste, Fr. mauvais gout; unmannerliness, indecorum, impoliteness,… …

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  • 67slip-up — n Informal. mistake, error, human error, Inf. miscue; blunder, botch, bungle, fumble, flub, muff; leak, slip, slip of the tongue or pen; faux pas, gaffe, indiscretion, breach of etiquette, offense, peccadillo; oversight, omission, miss, Inf. go… …

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  • 68faux pas — /foʊ ˈpa/ (say foh pah), /ˈfoʊ pa / (say foh pah) noun (plural faux pas /foʊ ˈpaz/ (say foh pahz), /foʊ ˈpa/ (say foh pah)) a false step; a slip in manners; a breach of etiquette. {French} …

  • 69Drayton, Michael — (1563 1631)    It is conjectured that Drayton was born at Hartshill, near Atherstone, Warwickshire, and that he was in the service of Sir Henry Goodere of Powlesworth, Warwickshire, who seems to have played a part in Drayton s education. Just as… …

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  • 70wrong — The infringement of a legal right belonging to a definite specific person. Kamm v Flink, 113 NJL 582, 175 A 62, 99 ALR 1. In common usage, an act in violation of a moral principle. The word, as the word injury, in law imports the invasion of a… …

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