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manque
1[ mahnk ]
noun
- the numbers 1 to 18 in roulette.
manqué
2[ mahng-key; French mahn-key ]
adjective
- having failed, missed, or fallen short, especially because of circumstances or a defect of character; unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated (usually used postpositively):
a poet manqué who never produced a single book of verse.
manqué
/ ˈmɒŋkeɪ; mɑ̃ke /
adjective
- postpositive unfulfilled; potential; would-be
the manager is an actor manqué
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Until reading McGrath, I had never before been so struck by the fact that Lewis was a poet manqué.
What about Ike and Richard Nixon and the worshipped California cowboy manqué Ronald Reagan?
His smouldering discontent burst forth on the occasion given him by this mariage manqué.
Je n'ai pas manqué de raconter cette circonstance comme un des fleurons de votre couronne.
Le monde n'a jamais manqué de charlatans; cette science, de tout temps, fut en professeurs très fertile.
When I hear my bouillon bubble, the tears are in my eyes, for I know it is a plat manqué.
This trick is, then, what the French call a coup-manqué; or a missing of the mark.
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