arriere pensee


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Noun1.arriere pensee - an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedlyarriere pensee - an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
mental reservation, reservation
doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty - the state of being unsure of something
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The positive in Khazan's interpretation is his approach to the subject without any arriere pensee or ideological preference.
Oleg Vital'evich Budnitskii et al., eds., The World Crisis of 1914-20 and the Fate of East European Jewry/Mirovoi krizis 1914-1920 godov i sud'ba vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva

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