Crossword-Solution: BLAGUEUR 8 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

While the lady at the needle kept up a little running, contemptuous comment: “_Blagueur—farceur—gros bête, va!_” He never assumed this seriocomic tone when alone with Mrs.

Well, do you know what he says? He is such a hoaxer, such a _blagueur_, that I did not believe him, and hardly believe him now, but he swore to me that it was true." "What was it?" asked her three companions simultaneously.

That is what gives the marquis that _blagueur_, Père Tranquille air, as he looks you in the face with both hands in his pockets, as much as to say: "Well, what then? What can you do to me?" And the little tiger, in the aforesaid attitude, with his prematurely old, vicious child's face, copied his master so perfectly that it seemed to me as if I were looking at the man himself sitting in our administrative council, facing the Governor, and overwhelming him with his cynical jests.

The genus _craqueur_ is common here: as it shoots out into a thousand branches, shades, varieties, and modifications, judicial, political, poetical, and so on, it would be {415} quite out of my province to pursue farther the description of _blagueur_-land or _blarney_-land.

That is a very clever way of concealing one's lack of merit--to pose as a scoffer or a _blagueur_, which are much the same thing.