"i mangel af bedre" meaning in Danish

{
  "etymology_text": "Lit. \"in lack of better [thing]\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "adverb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "i mangel af bedre",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "i mangel af bedre",
      "name": "da-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Danish",
  "lang_code": "da",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Danish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "... her father, whom I, lacking a better alternative, called grandfather, ...",
          "ref": "2016, Hanya Yanagihara, Et lille liv, Politikens Forlag",
          "text": "... hendes far, som jeg i mangel af bedre kaldte bedstefar, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "... it was her secrets that I, faute de mieux, phantasized about, and which I vainly tried to wrest from father.",
          "ref": "2012, Stig Dalager, Glemsel og erindring - Broerne til verden 1, Lindhardt og Ringhof",
          "text": "... det var hendes hemmeligheder, jeg i mangel af bedre fantaserede om, og som jeg forgæves forsøgte at vriste ud af far.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Henning Mankell, Svenske gummistøvler, Gyldendal A/S",
          "roman": "What shall the girl be named? I asked faute de mieux.",
          "text": "Hvad skal pigen hedde? spurgte jeg i mangel af bedre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "faute de mieux, for lack of a better alternative"
      ],
      "id": "en-i_mangel_af_bedre-da-adv--W1jY04p",
      "links": [
        [
          "faute de mieux",
          "faute de mieux"
        ],
        [
          "lack",
          "lack"
        ],
        [
          "alternative",
          "alternative"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "i mangel af bedre"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Lit. \"in lack of better [thing]\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "adverb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "i mangel af bedre",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "i mangel af bedre",
      "name": "da-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Danish",
  "lang_code": "da",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Danish adverbs",
        "Danish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Danish lemmas",
        "Danish multiword terms",
        "Danish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "... her father, whom I, lacking a better alternative, called grandfather, ...",
          "ref": "2016, Hanya Yanagihara, Et lille liv, Politikens Forlag",
          "text": "... hendes far, som jeg i mangel af bedre kaldte bedstefar, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "... it was her secrets that I, faute de mieux, phantasized about, and which I vainly tried to wrest from father.",
          "ref": "2012, Stig Dalager, Glemsel og erindring - Broerne til verden 1, Lindhardt og Ringhof",
          "text": "... det var hendes hemmeligheder, jeg i mangel af bedre fantaserede om, og som jeg forgæves forsøgte at vriste ud af far.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Henning Mankell, Svenske gummistøvler, Gyldendal A/S",
          "roman": "What shall the girl be named? I asked faute de mieux.",
          "text": "Hvad skal pigen hedde? spurgte jeg i mangel af bedre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "faute de mieux, for lack of a better alternative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "faute de mieux",
          "faute de mieux"
        ],
        [
          "lack",
          "lack"
        ],
        [
          "alternative",
          "alternative"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "i mangel af bedre"
}