faute de mieux
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of faute de mieux
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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They include bigly, deplorable, irregardless, icon, assumpsit, faute de mieux, in omnia paratus, revenant and feckless.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2016
Finland emerged as a modern nation state almost faute de mieux: having been annexed from Sweden by Russia, the Grand Duchy of Finland found itself without a Grand Duke following the October Revolution.
From The New Yorker • May 12, 2015
Some of the most well-meaning people collaborate — faute de mieux — and some of the bravest resisters are downright unpleasant.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2013
Doctors offhandedly counsel moderation as a holding pattern, something you do, cautiously and faute de mieux, until things go really wrong.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fontainebleau, too, was only a faute de mieux, and I have left it.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Vorst, Marie Van
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