face-saving

adjective

1. maintaining dignity or prestige

Example Sentences

Brazil came up with a face-saving idea of roadmaps on deforestation and fossil fuels that would exist outside the COP.

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They deserve to know how Kissinger and Nixon secretly engineered this face-saving “decent interval.”

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As Trump continued spreading false fraud claims and filing legal challenges, Pence reportedly suggested on 12 November a “face-saving option”: "Don’t concede but recognize the process is over."

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At a “private lunch on November 12….Pence reiterated a face-saving option for the defendant: “don’t concede but recognize the process is over.”

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For instance, in the film, Prince Andrew is told Covid is to be used as a face-saving excuse for him not to be at the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

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