bon mot

NOUN
  1. a clever remark
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How To Use bon mot In A Sentence

  • No school gyms of adulating audiences on their feet to cheer the genius, no comic book figures dropping bon mots could press those keys.
  • PMLQ president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain fired the first volley with his famous "bon mot" raat gai baat gai. Terrorists Trying To Establish A State Of Their Own
  • By that bon mot , he meant to imply, no doubt, that only a listener who really involves himself is of importance to music or the makers of music.
  • Whitley, a willowy former City banker, peppered his talk with literary bon mots and some distinctly fast verse.
  • TwitWit promises to turn the most mundane tweets into wryly amusing bon mots, Seinfeldesque observations, and sidesplitting jokes. ESarcasm: Best & Brightest: The eSarc 50
  • Here's another of her screamingly funny bon mots.
  • Palissot, * at sixty years old, was destined to expiate in a prison a satire upon Rousseau, written when he was only twenty, and escaped, not by the interposition of justice, but by the efficacity of a bon mot. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
  • Your finely honed bon mots and puckish conversational sallies will be of no assistance - this woman seems to be listening to something else entirely.
  • And if you think Mr. Lott has been silent for the last four years, Tim Grieve has a collection of some of the Gentleman from Mississippi's bon mots: Lott on Iraq: After declaring that Senate Republicans and "real people out there in the world" don't "obsess" about Iraq like reporters do, Lott said in September that he doesn't understand why Sunnis and Shiites are fighting each other anyway. November 2006
  • Every political side gets their shot at a bon mot, a quip, or a zinger.
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