faux pas

In social situations, there is an uneasiness, clumsiness, or perhaps some sort of minor embarrassment or faux pas on your part.

Now, Google has a way to help protect you (and others) from such a faux pas.

Meanwhile, in an unfortunate red carpet faux pas, Pink and Shakira both showed up in the same Balmain dress.

US State Department spokesman admitted the diplomatic faux pas, and joked that it is better a week early than a week late.

The diplomatic faux pas was awkwardly admitted by spokesman PJ Crowley, who said: "Better a week early than a week late. "

His supervisor still gave him a promotion despite his faux pas at the meeting.

And as I said, when I make a mistake or commit a culture faux pas, people usually understand.

One of the clumsier faux pas is when a customer fails to inform the master in advance of dislikes or allergies.

And thank me for forgiving you of your dating faux pas.

Traditionally, the OBE medal is worn on the left side, and commentators during the coverage noted the faux pas during their telecasts.

Refill your own wine glass in France without offering more to the rest of the table, and you've made a faux pas.

Bush is no stranger to the occasional faux pas, and often jokes about his habit of mangling the English language.

We have made the ultimate faux pas of putting hyphens into what should be natural language commands .

There's social faux pas around the molestation of children.

Grayling's faux pas, his violation of politically approved etiquette, was not an isolated example.

We consider it very impolite to tell people when they have committed some social faux pas.

She added, rather controversially, that red hair was a dating faux pas too.

Hiring a PR firm can be well worth the expense, but even then a nasty faux pas can occur.

In a competitive job market, employers have the luxury of choice, and even a minor faux pas can hurt your chances.

We've all been guilty of a cultural faux pas twice or more when we cross into unfamiliar territories.

Facebook faux pas include drunken photographs, bad language, and messages complaining about worklife.

Unlike a fashion faux pas , a career killer outfit can do your professional image permanent damage .

Unlike fashion faux pas, a career killer outfit can do your professional image permanent damage.

Some people raised their hands to admit that they had committed many of the character's social faux pas themselves.

We believe that people will see a faux pas as incompetence .

Another communication faux pas is transferring a customer from one telephone extension to another.

When a friend of yours makes a serious faux pas, he tries to make amends later and undo what damage can be undone.

If they curse humorously, forgive their faux pas for being laid-back.

She didn't introduce herself to the host, a terrible faux pas, considering she'd never met her.

Let cheap Bohemians consider coffee the end, if they would. Let them make that faux pas.

What are the worse fashion faux pas in your career?

Tim felt he had committed a faux pas and left quietly.

Those two faux-pas helped cost it 800, 000 customers in its most recent quarter.

What is the greatest fashion faux pas?

or Elaine's countless work faux-pas.

Don't commit major faux-pas like asking how long lunch break is or when you can start taking vacations.

In other words, a faux pas in the making.

By being perceptive, engaged, and willing to learn, you can make a great impression and sidestep these hard-to-recover-from faux pas.

Mr. Wang behaves carefully so that he will not commit a faux pas.

Appearing ostentatious isn't a faux pas in China, it's often the goal.

These are two major fashion faux pas, and both are unsightly.

What has been your most memorable faux pas during your time in China?

i made some remark about his wife ' s family then realized i ' d made a serious faux pas

i don ' t apologize for you when you do one of your faux pas

you know what ? next time i make a faux pas like you ,

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