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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. For lack of something better.

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  1. adv. For want of something better; for lack of an alternative.

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  1. Borrowing from French. (Wiktionary)
  2. French : faute, lack + de, of + mieux, better. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • laiane From the French, "for lack of something better."

    I encountered this in a current article in The London Review of Books (about Weimar Germany):

    "What, looking back, was so characteristic about the culture of a shortlived German republic that nobody had really wanted and most Germans accepted as faute de mieux at best?" Jan 24, 2008

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