Usually means: Mistake in social or cultural etiquette.
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  1. faux pas: Merriam-Webster
  2. faux pas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. faux pas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. faux pas: Collins English Dictionary
  5. faux pas: Vocabulary.com
  6. faux-pas, faux pas: Wordnik
  7. faux pas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. faux pas: Wiktionary
  9. faux pas: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. faux pas: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. faux pas: Dictionary.com
  12. faux pas: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Faux pas, The Faux Pas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. faux pas: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. faux pas: Rhymezone
  16. faux pas, faux pas (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. faux pas: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. Faux Pas: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. faux pas: FreeDictionary.org
  20. faux pas: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. faux pas: Foreign Words and Phrases
  22. faux pas: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Faux Pas: World Wide Words
  24. faux pas: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. faux pas: Encyclopedia

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  1. faux-pas: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (faux pas)

▸ noun:  An embarrassing or tactless blunder.

Similar:
gaffe, slip, gaucherie, solecism, mistake, trip, blunder, error, misstep, floater, more...

Opposite:
etiquette

Types:
interrupting, not apologizing, not RSVPing, more...

Phrases:
Faux pas derived from Chinese pronunciation, commits a faux pas, more...

Adjectives:
gone wrong, bad, beef, whoopsy, titanic, bungled, botched up, teen, trip, gone bad, screwed up

Colors:
    beige,     blush,     chartreuse,     coral,     ecru, more...
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Similar:
gaffe, slip, gaucherie, solecism, mistake, trip, blunder, error, misstep, floater, more...

Opposite:
etiquette

Types:
interrupting, not apologizing, not RSVPing, more...

Phrases:
Faux pas derived from Chinese pronunciation, commits a faux pas, more...

Adjectives:
gone wrong, bad, beef, whoopsy, titanic, bungled, botched up, teen, trip, gone bad, screwed up

Colors:
    beige,     blush,     chartreuse,     coral,     ecru, more...



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