bon mot in English

noun

1

a witty remark.

He is laconically hilarious, hot in a blonde way, he can pass off a piece of dialogue as the wittiest bon mot without breaking a sweat and he also writes.

synonyms: witticism, quip, pun, pleasantry, jest, joke, wisecrack, one-liner, apophthegm, equivoque

noun

• witticism, quip, pun, pleasantry, jest, joke, wisecrack, one-liner, apophthegm, equivoque
• mot

Use "bon mot" in a sentence

1. What I really want is a bon mot.

2. 5 They loved a bon mot or anecdote but despised gossip.

3. He often sets the table a-roaring with a well-placed bon mot.

4. He often set the table a - roaring with a well - placed bon mot.

5. By that bon mot , he meant to imply, no doubt, that only a listener who really involves himself is of importance to music or the makers of music.

6. One of the first songs we hear in Nashville, sung by a sequined headliner with political ambitions named Haven Hamilton, is the Bicentennially themed “200 Years,” a John Philip Sousa-worthy march that features this bon mot of patriotic absurdity in its chorus: “We …