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faux_pas

faux pas

See also: Fauxpas

English

Noun

faux pas ‎(plural faux pas)

An embarrassing or tactless blunder (especially used in social situations and contexts); a misstep.
- 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 2
  A saint after repentance will forgive himself for a sin; a man about town will never forgive himself for a faux pas.

Synonyms

(a mistake): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, misstep, slip, stumble, thinko, Freudian slip
See also Wikisaurus:error

Translations

social blunder

Chinese:
Mandarin: 失禮 (zh), 失礼 (zh) ‎(shīlǐ), 失態 (zh), 失态 (zh) ‎(shītài), 失足 (zh) ‎(shīzú), 過失 (zh), 过失 (zh) ‎(guòshī), 失誤 (zh), 失误 (zh) ‎(shīwù)
Czech: faux pas (cs) n
Finnish: kömmähdys (fi), etikettivirhe, moka (fi)
French: faux pas (fr) m, (colloquial) impair (fr) m
German: Fauxpas (de) m

Italian: passo falso
Japanese: 過失 (ja) ‎(かしつ, kashitsu)
Russian: беста́ктность (ru) f ‎(bestáktnostʹ), некраси́вый посту́пок m ‎(nekrasívyj postúpok), просту́пок (ru) m ‎(prostúpok), опло́шность (ru) f ‎(oplóšnostʹ) (blunder, mistake); ло́жный шаг m ‎(lóžnyj šag)
Spanish: (informally) metida de pata (es) f, metedura de pata (es) f

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fo pa/

Noun

faux pas m ‎(plural faux pas)

stumble, misstep, false step
(figuratively) faux pas, blunder