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    Use "contretemps" in a sentence

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    contretemps


    1. She adopted the kitten shortly after this contretemps and named her Butterscotch


    2. The slight contretemps claimed her attention but in two twos she set that little


    3. Side by side Bloom, profiting by the contretemps, with Stephen passed through the gap of the chains, divided by the upright, and, stepping over a strand of mire, went across towards Gardiner street lower, Stephen singing more boldly, but not loudly, the end of the ballad


    4. Evidently he had forgotten the contretemps, or pretended to have forgotten it, for he settled himself on the top step at her feet without mention of their late difference


    5. Not only had she vomited before a man—in itself as horrible a contretemps as could overtake a woman—but by doing so, the humiliating fact of her pregnancy must now be with him, of all people, with Rhett who had no respect for women! She cried, expecting evident


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    "contretemps" definitions

    an awkward clash