French English Dictionary
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désinvolte in English:
1. jaunty
a jaunty smile
He wore a jaunty coat of chocolate-colored velvet, with diamond buttons, and with two huge pockets which were always filled with bones, dropped there at dinner by his loving mistress.
English word "désinvolte"(jaunty) occurs in sets:
Fiches du livre - "Mostly Mary" (Mary Edward Feehan)Fiches du livre - "Pierre Grassou" (Honore de Balzac)
Fiches du livre - "Jaunty Jock and Other Stories" ...
Fiches du livre - "The Story of Live Dolls" (Josep...
Fiches du livre - "Gypsy Flight A Mystery Story fo...
2. flippant
It was a flippant act of bravery.
It's easy to be flippant, but we have a serious problem to deal with here.
my flippant remarks about the downside of facebook provoked a huge debate
English word "désinvolte"(flippant) occurs in sets:
Fiches du livre - "The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne" (...Fiches du livre - "An Uninvited Member A Play for ...
Fiches du livre - "Perverted Proverbs A Manual of ...
Fiches du livre - "America's Black and White Book ...
3. offhand
I can't quote the exact statistics for you offhand, but they're there for you to see in the report. / I don't know offhand.
We can remain in constant contact, we can exchange our experience offhand, we can communicate with people from distant parts of the world and we may even get in touch with old, almost forgotten, friends.
... emerged later, through an offhand comment.
I cannot answer your request offhand.
The villagers were offhand with us.
English word "désinvolte"(offhand) occurs in sets:
Fiches du livre - "Spaceman on a Spree" (Mack Reyn...Fiches du livre - "Satellite System" (Horace Brown...
Fiches du livre - "Roy Blakeley, Lost, Strayed or ...
4. offhanded
English word "désinvolte"(offhanded) occurs in sets:
Fiches du livre - "Voice from the Cave" (Mildred A...Fiches du livre - "A History of the Durham Miner's...
Fiches du livre - "Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The...
5. glib
glib remarks
'The psychopath is very likely to be a good salesperson, if the are intelligent as well as glib and superficial.'
English word "désinvolte"(glib) occurs in sets:
Fiches du livre - "The Sayings Of Confucius" (Conf...Fiches du livre - "The Skating Party and Other Sto...
Fiches du livre - "Shakspeare's Mental Photographs...
other words beginning with "D"
désagréable in Englishdésert in English
désespere in English
désir in English
désirer in English
désolé in English
