How to Use faux pas in a Sentence

faux pas

noun

• Arriving too early would be a serious faux pas.
• Stick to the Dress Code Run your outfit past the bride and groom to avoid any fashion faux pas.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• Don’t commit any of these faux pas on your next night out.
  — Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2023
• This is a social media faux pas that a lot of brands are guilty of.
  — Jim Tobin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Bold Whites Some people think that wearing white this late in the year is a faux pas.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
• And treating a fashion faux pas as a racial affront isn’t a good look for the rest of us.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• Below are some of the most prevalent website faux pas and how to avoid them.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• As seen in photos from the glam gala, the crown princess was quick to catch the faux pas and switched her navy sash to her right shoulder.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Kennedy was also accomplished in the twin arts of the faux pas and the breach of protocol.
  — David M. Shribman, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Fanny packs went out of style years ago and were even mocked as a fashion faux pas.
  — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2021
• Brown responded from that free throw faux pas with 14 points in the second half and just one turnover.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2022
• The only other faux pas was the turn signal stalk, which has a wiper button on its end.
  — Tribune News Service, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
• What’s the etiquette for a gifting faux pas — in a pandemic?
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The faux pas would be forgetting that little black bow tie.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
• And the most common faux pas in the mulch world falls in the category of quantity.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Apr. 2021
• My biggest faux pas here was my first and last attempt at some April Fool’s humor back in 2014.
  — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Twitter users were quick to call out Biden on the apparent fashion faux pas.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
• Going to bed with a face full of makeup is the ultimate skincare faux pas.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 16 Aug. 2022
• Adam Scott is getting closure on a faux pas that has been haunting him for nearly three decades.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
• The teams that Oliver has, to watch out for cultural faux pas, are presumably non-White.
  — Anna Sulan Masing, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• In this era of healthy hair goals, being obsessed with something that can cause damage to your strands is a bit of a beauty faux pas.
  — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2020
• Then again, with the nipple once again being en vogue, a slightly see-through dress isn’t exactly a faux pas.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 20 July 2023
• And with her latest look, she’s managed to turn a fashion faux pas into a stylish statement.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 8 June 2022
• Here’s a faux pas aspiring entrepreneurs make all the time regardless of their age.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• It’s the kind of place where footwear more formal than sandals is a fashion faux pas, but where getting up from the pool to go and fetch some just seems too much work.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Kim shared the faux pas in her Instagram Stories, posting a selfie with the birthday queen.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2022
• Bass made no obvious slip-ups or faux pas that might endanger her early lead in the polls.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Just as designers frown upon all square furniture in a room, all round is just as big a faux pas.
  — Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• Now, a normal organism would not let this faux pas ruin its week.
  — River Clegg, The New Yorker, 19 July 2022
• The worst faux pas is switching between paying attention to your phone and listening to the person on the screen.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 June 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024