tout court
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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By her own admission, Ms. Ypi receives a good deal of hate mail from her compatriots, who regard her failure to condemn communism tout court as a form of moral betrayal.
A week into the Games, the shoe was suddenly on the other foot: the panda was being condemned for speaking tout court and was even repudiated as a "fake Bing Dwen Dwen" by government officials hoping to dispel this as an adventitious incident.
From Salon
"This Hamlet lights up when the 'players' come to town and the chief point is that, throughout, he doesn't just believe in the role, he commits to the value of theatre tout court - that's inspiring."
From BBC
Some elevate this into a virtue: suspicious of ideology tout court, they prefer to see themselves merely as sensible managers.
From The Guardian
Yet that’s what contemporary progressivism is constantly inclined to do: Because the male archetypes were forged in more sexist eras, that sexism is regarded as a reason to reject the archetypes tout court, in the hopes of building some sort of New Progressive Man instead.
From New York Times
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