boutade
Britishnoun
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Origin of boutade
C17: from French, from bouter to thrust
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The passage which follows is no mere boutade or paradox; it is a kind of culminating expression of the theory which regards the supraliminal man as the normal man, and distrusts all deep disturbance of his accustomed psychical routine.
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Boutade, bōō-tad′, n. a sudden outburst.
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Jeffrey called indignant attention to the "most rooted and disgusting selfishness" of Rousseau, and quoted with approval the boutade of Diderot, "Cet homme est un forcen�."
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He was even sued in the courts for a pamphlet called Boutade d’un homme riche � sentiments populaires, and delivered a speech to the jury in which he displayed very daring social theories.
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Nothing need be added, I think, to so graphic a "boutade" as this, which, though somewhat satirical, would not appear to have been much too highly coloured for the occasion.
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