He committed a faux pas when he asked whether she was pregnant.
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Faux
//fəʊ//
Synonyms for "faux" (16 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 10 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 仿製 /仿制 adj (fake or artificial)
Dutch
3 entries- nep adj (fake or artificial)
- onecht adj (fake or artificial)
- vals adj (fake or artificial)
Esperanto
2 entries- artefarita adj (fake or artificial)
- falsa adj (fake or artificial)
Finnish
2 entries- keinotekoinen adj (fake or artificial)
- teko adj (fake or artificial)
French
1 entries- faux adj (fake or artificial)
German
3 entries- falsch adj (fake or artificial)
- künstlich adj (fake or artificial)
- unecht adj (fake or artificial)
Irish
1 entries- bréag adj (fake or artificial)
Romanian
2 entries- contrafăcut adj (fake or artificial)
- fals adj (fake or artificial)
Russian
2 entries- иску́сственный adj (fake or artificial)
- фальши́вый adj (fake or artificial)
Spanish
2 entries- de imitación adj (fake or artificial)
- falso adj (fake or artificial)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
First, faux research yields a faux answer to a clinical question. Then, faux education assures that doctors everywhere hear about it, so they can write millions of prescriptions based on the faux information. Bribes and kickbacks sometimes grease the skids.
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Tom made a faux pas.
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Mary made a faux pas.
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