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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suitable and acceptable
able
acceptability
acceptable
acceptably
accepted
convenience
correctly
correctness
decent
decently
do the decent thing
felicity
just what the doctor orderedidiom
legitimate
practical
quality
re-eligibility
re-eligible
relevance
relevant

Examples of comme il faut

comme il faut
According to her, it was not commeilfaut to board or live in a rented house.
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Her face she allowed was handsome; but her style, according to this oracle, was a little bourgeoise, and her air not exactly commeilfaut.
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She wants to make the acquaintance of a commeilfaut man.
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All of it was very commeilfaut.
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The next moment he was in the room, perfectly commeilfaut, sparkling, resistless.
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It's commeilfaut for vagabonds in the best set, you know.
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You can marry the girl next door--or even take the chance of the one across the street, her parentage being commeilfaut.
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It will be just as amusing, and a great deal more commeilfaut!
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He, not the fashion, is commeilfaut.
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It is always commeilfaut to please the colonel.
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The baroness thought him charming and very commeilfaut, and the baron remarked that he was a very well-educated man.
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It sailed through society all a-taut with convention, and was commeilfaut from stem to stern.
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He considered himself not only un homme très commeilfaut, but a man of chivalric honesty.
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Still, the aquatic exploit was commeilfaut.
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I was "commeilfaut" and smoked.
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