à l'improviste

[a lan-praw-veest]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

French.

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I have no right to dart in on you thus à l'improviste.

She laughed and said, "Do you wish me to unveil my soul, comme cela, à l'improviste?"

She took me really a l'improviste, and I had not time to go and meet her.

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