betise

1 You give it up!—for what?—for a betise, for an absurd scruple.

2 I had no sooner spoken the words than I felt that somehow I had been guilty of a betise.

3 "Ill-luck is a /betise/," said the great Cardinal Richelieu; and in the long run, I fear, his Eminence was right.

4 She drank a great deal of champagne and ate an immense number of strawberries, and was plainly altogether a person with an impartial relish for strawberries, champagne and what she doubtless would have called betises.

5 The good-natured Countess Dey blushed and said: "We had entirely forgotten that you are related to these people," which sounds like a betise, but is balm for Eugene's vanity.

6 She stumped unconcernedly along the "Passage of Terrors," and any reference to its hidden dangers of robbers, hunchbacks, bears, and crocodiles only provoked the remark, "Quel tas de betises!"

7 writing a sequel to a Jane Austen novel must be regarded as a literary bêtise of the highest order

8 He will commit in one meal every betise that a senllion fresh from the plow-tail is capable of, and he will continue to repeat those faults.

9 "Ill-luck is a betise," said the great Cardinal Richelieu; and in the long run, I fear, his Eminence was right.

10 One is made up of the history, the doings, the marriages, the crimes, the follies, the boundless betises of other people—especially of their infamous waste of money that might have come to me.

11 It needs the reverberation of the impartial mind to reassure him that he has not been guilty of a betise.

12 You are not too great a coward to contemplate the committing of a much more serious betise.

13 In what point is the Darwaysh more a mummer or in what does he show more of betise than the quack?

14 This is a betise of the first water.

15 The psychologists of France—and where else are there still psychologists nowadays?—have never yet exhausted their bitter and manifold enjoyment of the betise bourgeoise, just as though... in short, they betray something thereby.

16 He immediately stopped his pursuit, exclaiming with a shrug: "Ah quelle betise!"

17 One is made up of the history, the doings, the marriages, the crimes, the follies, the boundless betises of other people— especially of their infamous waste of money that might have come to me.

18 Napoleon called the move an insigne betise, but it was the move that beat him, and must have beaten him, whatever the skill of his admirals, for the two squadrons never lost touch.

19 The worst of it was that his betise wasn't of the too obvious sort.

20 We should get no clothes fit to wear next week if we committed such a betise.

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