for want of a better word

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if you say that you are using a particular word for want of a better word, you mean that it is not quite exact or suitable but there is no better one They have problems, which, for want of a better word, we call psychological.

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? References in classic literature
Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to me an exact fac-simile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before. The Man of the Crowd by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to me an exact fac-simile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before. Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context More results

? References in classic literature

Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to me an exact fac-simile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before.

The Man of the Crowd by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

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