You give it up! — for what? — for a betise, for an absurd scruple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

In what point is the Darwaysh more a mummer or in what does he show more of betise than the quack?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Si ils sont vos amis j'imagine que ils ont fait une betise culturelle, un insulte peut-etre, donc les clientes ont reagi mal ... on ne sait pas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top McCain Surrogates Questioning Obama's American-Ness] Reference

I had no sooner spoken the words than I felt that somehow I had been guilty of a betise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference

I declined, when I replied to you, to answer such flimsy sophistry, such sheer baliverne -- betise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference

It needs the reverberation of the impartial mind to reassure him that he has not been guilty of a betise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference

CHAPTER X. "Ill-luck is a betise," said the great Cardinal Richelieu; and in the long run, I fear, his Eminence was right.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Lord Warburton such a betise was singularly misplaced; and she was so conscious of liking him that she ventured to assure herself it was the very softness, and the fine intelligence, of sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference

If it had been pride that interfered with her accepting Lord Warburton such a betise was singularly misplaced; and she was so conscious of liking him that she ventured to assure herself it was the very softness, and the fine intelligence, of sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference

That seventy-two men should plot the assassination of a sovereign on whose life interests so numerous and so watchful depend, and imagine they could keep a secret which any drunkard amongst them would blab out, any tatterdemalion would sell, is a betise so gross that I think it highly probable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

"The worst of it was that his betise wasn't of the too obvious sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eyes] Reference

It's those carts, or, what was it? ... “the rumble of the carts carrying bread to humanity “being more important than the Sistine Madonna, or, what's the saying? ... une betise dans ce genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Possessed] Reference

"French esprit may soon evaporate into Parisian betise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisians — Complete] Reference

"Ah, mon Dieu, non; je ne suis pas homme a semblable betise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

“Ah, mon Dieu, non; je ne suis pas homme a semblable betise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain] Reference

< i > betise .    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Hours] Reference

For a betise, for an absurd scruple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

The punters are, Charles, par interet, Fish Craufurd, par complaisance, and the D. of R., par betise.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference