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bien-pensant definition

bien-pensant (byan pän sän′)

adjective

right-minded; accepting or based on ideas regarded as sound or correct; orthodox, doctrinaire, conventional, etc.

Etymology: Fr < bien, well + prp. of penser, to think

noun

one who is orthodox, conventional, etc.
Also bien pensant

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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