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faute de mieux
adv. For want of something better; for lack of an alternative.
Usage examples of "faute de mieux".
But Belbo by now was an adept, and, like other adepts, not through enlightenment, but faute de mieux.
Finally she selected, faute de mieux, a dark-green wool that hung loosely from the yoke and could be belted to any diameter required.
That was faute de mieux, but gradually the administrating crowded out the engineering.
He said it was a matter of the greatest importance so, faute de mieux, I stopped.