milieu

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You must accept this resuscitated trio, if at all, very much as they actually went about Tuscany, in long ago discarded young flesh, when the one trait everywhere common to their milieu was the absence of any moral excitement over such-and-such an action's being or not being "wicked."

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  • The plot is nothing extraordinary, but the milieu is a fresh one. —  EQMM,November2007
  • And as a portrait of Capote's New York jet-set milieu, the movie offers loads of cruel fun, though it could have been even more critical .... —  GreenCine Daily
  • The milieu is an underworld of casual murder, and it would be unsettling were this not the sort of goofy action movie in which a leering male character says, in an automotively themed pickup line, "I'm one of those boys who appreciate a fine body, regardless of the make."
  • These social circumstances constitute a morbid milieu which is detrimental to the health of an individual and society. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Horace McCoy's 1935 novel memorializing this Depression milieu was aptly titled —  Signs of the Times
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Old French, center : mi, middle (from Latin medius; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots) + lieu, place (from Latin locus).

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  1. French, from mi (from Latin medius), middle, + lieu (from Latin locus), place.
 

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