comme il faut

[ kaw-meel foh; English kuhm eel foh ]

French.

1. as it should be; proper; fitting; fittingly.

comme il faut

/ kɔm il fo /

(no translation)

1. correct or correctly

Example Sentences

“It’s not considered comme il faut,” he told The Washington Post in 1981.

From Washington Post

It was not quite comme il faut that the Barons should presume to speak to the boy.

From The New Yorker

The French duo are certainly more meticulous than Moroder ever was, but the nine-minute epic is a comme il faut tribute to a living legend, and a gracious thank you to their musical progenitor.

From The Guardian

He never met her but kept in touch by phone for long stretches from 1977 to 2003, out of a genteel sense of comme il faut, according to his deposition.

From New York Times

Midas" of Lily, quoted by Charles Knight in his "London," are found collected several of these distinctive marks of the courtier comme il faut: "How will you be trimmed, sir?

From Project Gutenberg