0 words or behaviour that are a social mistake or not polite:
1 a remark or action in a social situation that is a mistake and causes embarrassment or offense:
Bechuanaland, where we have recently made such an unfortunate faux pas, is another difficult spot.
Nevertheless, it is instructive to trace his faux pas.
This formulation is preferred by politicians and professional athletes who have made some egregious faux pas or been caught in especially sordid straits.
This finding suggests difficulty in truly empathizing with the characters in the stories or an indifference to the impact of the faux pas on the speaker or the listener.
They were then asked a series of questions that address detection and understanding of the faux pas, the mental state of the listener and the mental state of the speaker.
However, this faux pas was carried by a majority.
In my view, item 4 has been included because of a faux pas by a number of colleagues.
It really was an awful faux pas, was it not, seriously to suggest that the facts are not available?
