2 example sentences using contretemps.
Contretemps used in a sentence
Contretemps in a sentence as a noun
Interestingly, one of the latest contretemps on Twitter etc. Lis the desire by some for open source licenses that restrict usage by purpose or organization.
In my experience, the correlation between worthwhile kernel contributors, and people who enshrine Linus Torvalds' own somewhat infamous former style of comportment as somehow essential to technical excellence in the project, is negligible unto imperceptibility - so I see no reason to imagine that the project itself is imperiled by this current contretemps.
Contretemps definitions
noun
an awkward clash; "he tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman"