Definitions
Etymologies
- From French manqué (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The gluten-free wassen-manque is fine if somewhat bland.”
“I conceived of Duncan as a kind of academic manque - if his particular field of interest had been Conrad or Gerard Manley Hopkins or someone, he'd be gainfully employed in a university.”
“He wrote the screenplay for I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry – but says it was rewritten by star Adam Sandler; that had to sting – and produced the effervescent Ed Helms comedy Cedar Rapids, a Payne movie manque.”
The Guardian: Alexander Payne's The Descendants – not just for the kids, thankfully
“French Vocabulary chez la (le) vétérinaire = at the veterinarian's manque de chance!”
“Peruvians have now taken a big gamble with that success by electing their own Peronist manque, in the form of national-socialist candidate Ollanta Humala.”
“Hell, if you want people to burn down bookstores, just throw a bishie Mohammad manque into the mix, a la Super Best Friends.”
“~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ la méfiance (f) = distrust; le manque (m) de chance = unluckiness; une vie (f) de chien = dog's life”
“Max Baucus is a deal-maker and John Kerry will play the statesman manque .”
“A elle seule, cette ville de quelques milliers d'habitants concentre tous les maux d'un peuple: pauvreté, chômage, pollution, sous-développement économique, manque d'équipements et d'infrastructures, répression policière.”
Global Voices in English » Tunisia: Severe Flooding Kills 15
“Le peuple gabonais pendant ce temps manque de tout.”
Global Voices in English » Gabon: On President Omar Bongo’s death
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘manque’.
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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Foreign words & phrases that matter ;
Important foreign/historical wrdrs & phrses
habeas corpus, beau geste, fin de siecle, décolletage, bete noire, manque, bonheur, pièce de résistance, mot juste, beau monde, gri-gri, de rigueur and 6 more...
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New Words
idiopathic, quidditas, cloacal, peregrination, cyclamen, expatiate, pedantic, salonniere, manque, pelagic, exogenous, pellucid and 83 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 234 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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Lolita
Words compiled while reading Lolita
lolita, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, tendresse, expiatory, filch, paroxysm, arabesques, sibilant, manque, uranist and 181 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Postpositive Adjectives
galore, aplenty, redivivus, manque, emeritus, regnant, redux, errant, a go go, immemorial, extraordinaire
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French
fin de siecle, gauche, arriviste, roman a clef, dernier cri, gasconnade, bete noire, décolletage, rapporteur, joie de vivre, carte blanche, cause célèbre and 28 more...
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agreatnotion's Words
juxtaposition, octogenarian, chiaroscuro, torpid, bevomit, vanquish, cantankerous, quotidian, inedita, quixotry, haute, expiate and 34 more...
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maieutics's Words
Cadged across years of reading, and now, I can't help but use them, inspite of the fact that some of my favorites may only have occurred once in 10,000 books
maieutics, phthisic, cynosure, skronk, manque, apposite, aboulia, oneiric, tzaddik, maculate, yegg, opaque and 1 more...
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cydonian's Words
schadenfreude, epicaricacy, mudita, fecundity, ruba'i, chaupai, hoi polloi, bandicoot, terpsichorean, comestibles, electrophotomicro..., panspermia and 69 more...
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john Huh. Apparently WeirdNet doesn't do accents. See manqué. Nov 29, 2007