faute de mieux
adverb
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Pronunciation: /fəʊt də ˈmjɜː/ / /fɔːt-/ / /-ˈmjø/
adv
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French faute de mieux.
- For want of something better; for lack of an alternative; as a makeshift.
“I just married her faute de mieux.”
“Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.”