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‖ mauvais sujet|mɔvɛ syʒɛ|
[Fr. = ‘bad subject’.]
A worthless fellow, a ‘bad lot’.
1793T. Fremantle in Wynne Diaries (1952) xix. 251 Find the surgeon to be a mauvais subjet [sic], talk much to him. He crys, and promises to amend. 1813A. Romilly Let. 12 Aug. in S. H. Romilly Romilly–Edgeworth Lett. (1936) 56 The youngest son, who was a very mauvais sujet, has just been killed in a duel. 1825H. Wilson Mem. I. 179, I will lay my life, you two desperate mauvais sujets came here together! 1847Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. Bros. Birchington, Snob, (An obsolete term, which..We should probably render by mauvais sujet). 1881Forster in Standard 25 Jan., A large proportion of them again are the mauvais sujets of the neighbourhood. 1897E. A. Bartlett Battlefields Thessaly viii. 171 These mauvais sujets had maltreated their own countrymen and women. 1945R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 56 Rome had failed to save one of its children, and even if that mauvais sujet had been guilty of recusancy, in the offspring's downfall the parent was no less undone. 1953Essays in Crit. III. 217 The things in my criticism that he shakes his head over..endorsing the charges of..‘bad form’ and ‘mauvais sujet’, are the effort to win that recognition. 1975A. Christie Curtain v. 46 The mauvais sujet—always women are attracted to him. |