contretemps in English

noun
1
an unexpected and unfortunate occurrence.
the hotel had to deal with more than one contretemps before the end of the night
synonyms:argumentquarrelsquabbledisagreementdifference of opiniondisputetiffset-torun-inspatrow
noun

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1. Something was going to balance his previous contretemps.

2. They have been ignoring me since our last contretemps.

3. He tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman.

4. It was during this illness that the first real contretemps occurred.

5. That contretemps is just one example of the conflicting signals on the UK economy.

6. He was briefly arrested in Rome after a contretemps with Italian police.

7. Her male cousins had hardly prepared her for a contretemps with a man she desired.

8. One Georgetown player shrugged off the contretemps. "Man, it's just a game, " he said.

9. I noticed on Tuesday morning when we had our contretemps in Dean's park.

10. Le grand Bouleversement: la nature humaine et la reconstitution de l'ordre social (contretemps) (french edition) by francis fukuyama.

11. The principal cause of injuries for adults was work wounds (8%), and for minors it was contretemps(3%).

12. The era that we are living in is one full of stress: economic crisis, contretemps, frustration in school work, disharmony about interpersonal relations etc.

13. The application results show that the system is simple and applied, and offers exact information that came from coal mine in time, decreases contretemps forwardly.

14. "We are working on it" have declared Amauri's agents Mariano and Vittorio Grimaldi, "today's meeting has been delayed only because we had a contretemps and so did Juventus executives".