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an enfant terrible

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an enfant terrible
a famous or successful person who likes to shock people by behaving badly (usually + of ) Jean Paul Gaultier, the enfant terrible of French fashion, arrived at the show wearing a mini kilt.
See also: terrible


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), it does at least have an enfant terrible of the most terrible sort.
With "Larry Rivers: Art and the Artist," the Corcoran hangs its hopes on an enfant terrible who's pushing eighty, sporting both earring and hearing aid.
Haynes was like some celluloid Antichrist damning the Aristotelian unities to hell, ricocheting through time and space between the laboratory of an obsessed scientist, the bedroom of an enfant terrible, and the erotically charged bunkers of a prison.
 
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