enfant terrible

Noun

Meaning

a person whose unconventional behavior embarrasses others

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Wilde was not a great poet nor a consummate prose writer. He was a very astute Irishman who encompassed in epigrams an esthetic credo which others before him scattered in the space of long pages. He was an enfant terrible. Jorge Luis Borges

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. Samuel Butler (novelist)

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. John Crowe Ransom

Panic: The War of the Worlds radio broadcast Enfant terrible Orson Welles's "Hallowe'en joke" frightened the country and snared a sponsor. Source: Internet

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