Meaning of faute de mieux | Babel Free

Definitions

For want of something better; for lack of an alternative; as a makeshift.

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Examples

“I just married her faute de mieux.”

“Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land⟳ did not think⟳ it shame, faute de mieux, to take⟳ up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest⟳ of the domestics in the servants' hall.”

“Among the explanations commonly advanced are: (1) Greek males were driven to seek⟳ romance and sexual gratification with other males, faute de mieux, by the seclusion and enforced intellectual impoverishment of *women; (2) […]”

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