Sentence examples for make a faux pas from inspiring English sources

As Hendrickx puts it, "If you're an intellectually able person with autism and you make a faux pas the automatic assumption is that you are smart enough to know and therefore have done it on purpose".

As long as you take drugs and aren't going to call cops, you can behave almost as strangely as you like and be accepted and you can blame the drugs for it if you do make a faux pas.

It is easy to make a faux pas in Moscow.

"If you make a faux pas, it's a faux pas against America".

The interviewer might make a faux pas without even realizing it, for example, and when the candidate flags it "they may realize their mistake and be horrified that they were potentially going to cause offense," Walker says.

In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, and where campaigns hire trackers to follow opponents on the campaign trail waiting for them to make a faux pas that they can then use against them, politicians have become near robotic.

THE visiting journalist has made a faux pas.

James realizes right away that he has made a faux pas.

Sharing their skepticism with their interpreter, the delegates made a faux pas.

You'll end up with more career politicians if you go for safe people who have never had a life and never made a faux pas".

"I made a faux pas" sounds much better than, "Boy, did I just step in it".