Meaning of manqués | Babel Free

Definitions

Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de manquer.

Equivalents

Examples

“Party functionaries at all levels are essentially dilettantes who may have⟳ diplomas or study⟳ certificates but not real competence. Basically, they are educational failures: engineers manqués, journalists manqués, scientists manqués.”

“None of these papers had much chance of getting past a journal referee. Few of the writers had much hope⟳ of even getting into graduate school. They may not have⟳ wanted to. The letters were mostly a cri de cœur from isolated and solitary physicists manqués all over the world.”

“The classics master is a quick literary shortcut to encapsulating a lonely, highly intelligent man dedicated to his subject, and often to his pupils. They are never in fiction — and rarely in real life — female. They are often dons manqués — men who, due to a personality fault, or an unfortunate incident with a boy, never made it as academics. And so they become⟳, life Dr Rutherford, substitute dons at school, keen on building up one-to-one relationships with the pupils and dismissive of their contemporaries in the school common-room.”

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