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Example sentences for: faux

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This faux pas might be likened to the Queen of England's saying in an address before Welsh miners, “As we here in England well know ...”
… As Hillary Clinton steps up her Senate campaign, a faux West Wing memo proposes first lady subs.
These faux amis (false friends), as they are called, are confused both by Anglophones speaking French and Francophones speaking English.
Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)
Courtney Love used to say that Alanis Morissette had killed alternative rock with her carefully crafted brand of faux angry-girl rock.