enfant terrible
noun
an incorrigible child, as one whose behavior is embarrassing.
enfants terribles
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pluralof enfant terrible.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It is perhaps the fate of all enfants terribles to eventually slip up and be trampled – either by their own demons or by the weight of public opinion.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2018
More than ripped jeans or a Sex Pistols T-shirt, leather motorcycle jackets are menswear’s enfants terribles, appropriate only for those who still get carded at 35.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2016
The artists are not only young, the idea is, but they’re also disobedient, mutinous enfants terribles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2012
Some analysts blame Zelnick for being too accommodating of his enfants terribles at Rockstar.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 26, 2010
It seemed to me that the appetites of these enfants terribles grew abnormally, that their clothes rent asunder with lightning-like rapidity, and that they fell into mud heaps with even greater facility than usual.
From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
