tout court

/ tu kur /

adverb

1. simply; briefly

Example Sentences

A week into the Games, the shoe was suddenly on the other foot: the panda was being condemned for speaking tout court and was even repudiated as a "fake Bing Dwen Dwen" by government officials hoping to dispel this as an adventitious incident.

From Salon

"This Hamlet lights up when the 'players' come to town and the chief point is that, throughout, he doesn't just believe in the role, he commits to the value of theatre tout court - that's inspiring."

From BBC

Some elevate this into a virtue: suspicious of ideology tout court, they prefer to see themselves merely as sensible managers.

From The Guardian

Yet that’s what contemporary progressivism is constantly inclined to do: Because the male archetypes were forged in more sexist eras, that sexism is regarded as a reason to reject the archetypes tout court, in the hopes of building some sort of New Progressive Man instead.

From New York Times

The skilled orator is out not necessarily to knock down his opponent’s case tout court—but to misrepresent his opponent’s case in such a way as to make it easier to attack.

From Literature