Words to Bring Back: “Contretemps”

– Definition: n. a minor dispute or disagreement.

– Used in a sentence: The current Administration* is one big contretemps after another.

– Why: Because “kerfuffle” could use a bit of adulting.

Author: Neal Ross Attinson

Neal Ross Attinson is one of those text-compulsives who feels naked without a keyboard, or at least a a pad and pen. He is unafraid of adverbs, loves astronomy and gastronomy with equally unabashed passion, and lives with/in an eclectic library in Sonoma, California.

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