Embarrassing disagreement

Usage examples of contretemps.

You admit to stupid, you cop to thoughtless, you plead brain-dead, you vouchsafe radical DNA damage all the way back to the Mesolithic, including that embarrassing contretemps involving your ancestor Hoockmuh of the Clactonians which resulted in your being minus a lobe or two of brain, and thus you are truly and genuinely contrite about having cut him off.

She took refuge in a kind of haughty silence, and whenever a new contretemps came to her knowledge, she simply greeted it with a bitter smile which Agatha always interpreted as an ironical reflection on poor, fantastic, obtrusive Mr.

In the meantime, through a contretemps between our outposts and the Boers, no leave had been given to us to withdraw our wounded, and the unfortunate fellows, some hundreds of them, had lain between the lines in agonies of thirst for thirty-six hours--one of the most painful incidents of the campaign.

Now and again its remoteness, promising freedom from embarrassing encounters save through unlikely mischance, would bring it the custom of a clandestine couple from the West End, who would for a time make it an almost daily rendezvous, meeting nervously, sitting if possible in the most shadowy corner, the farthest from the door, and holding hands when they mistakenly assumed that nobody was looking--until the affair languished or some contretemps frightened them away.

I had been anxious that the letter might allude to my contretemps with Philonoë's sister.

The naval officers seemed embarrassed by the contretemps, all but for Bampfylde who had evidently relished the clash of colonels.

After Crabbe, who unlike Wee Robert had no wish to leave the interesting contretemps in the drawing room, was prevailed upon to escort Wee Robert from the room, Bertrand turned to Brandy.

Other nosy townspeople who'd gotten wind of the contretemps between the board and Roberta Jewett came also, hoping to spice up their lives with additional fodder for gossip.

Early in the contretemps, Ignace waved his own blade cunningly, demonstrating both by stance and surefooted poise his expertise in the skill of knifery.

The Rush distortion that was the lefts major expose, the contretemps to end all contretemps, the anti-Rush reporters favorite bit from the meticulously researched FAIR report,85 was Rushs claim that after a California woman had been mauled to death by a mountain lion, a fund for her children had received about $9,000 and a fund for the orphaned lion cub (the lion was killed) set up by a bunch of animal rights activists had received $21,000.

It can be subtler that - a road accident, a fall from an underground train, a Me contretemps with a lift-shaft.

Tirla had solved the little contretemps over getting into a bathtub by flinging off her own clothes and climbing in first.