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mot
  1. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
  2. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
  3. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
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    1. “And in California, the State Department of Education essentially adopted whole language and foisted that on mot of the school districts.”
      “But all this striving for the mot juste only made it harder for me to write continuous prose.”
      “I usually think of something obtuse to say at this point, but I'm trying to say my bon mot for tomorrow, and the rest of the week.”
mot
  1. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
  2. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A landlady.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “And in California, the State Department of Education essentially adopted whole language and foisted that on mot of the school districts.”
      “But all this striving for the mot juste only made it harder for me to write continuous prose.”
      “I usually think of something obtuse to say at this point, but I'm trying to say my bon mot for tomorrow, and the rest of the week.”
bon mot
  1. A clever saying, phrase or witticism; often, a witty riposte in dialogue.
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    1. “The bon mot I was about to utter apropos of an opera I had never heard has left my mind entirely.”
      “I usually think of something obtuse to say at this point, but I'm trying to say my bon mot for tomorrow, and the rest of the week.”
      “He was particularly good, for example, at rendering that slightly quizzical arch of the eyebrow and half-smile that precedes the bon mot.”
bon mots
bons mots
mots
  1. plural of mot
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    1. “And surely there will be a special hockey moment that some announcer will capture with les mots justes.”
      “He ran an amiable trade in insights and mots justes, which he would oblige you to exchange, whether you were up to it or not.”
      “But according to the many people who rang and wrote in, these were very far from the mots justes.”
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