"faute de mieux" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1823, \"Select Society, With Observations on the Modern Art of Matchmaking\", in The New Monthly Magazine,by C. M., pub. E. W. Allen,, volume 8 pages 91-92",
          "text": "Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced \"Bobbing Joan,\" with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall."
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          "ref": "1998, “homosexuality”, in Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, editors, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation, Oxford, published 2004, →ISBN, page 353:",
          "text": "Among the explanations commonly advanced are: (1) Greek males were driven to seek romance and sexual gratification with other males, faute de mieux, by the seclusion and enforced intellectual impoverishment of *women; (2) […]",
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "for want of something better",
          "word": "i mangel af bedre"
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          "sense": "for want of something better",
          "word": "paremman puutteessa"
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          "sense": "for want of something better",
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          "sense": "for want of something better",
          "word": "en manko di plu bona (ulo)"
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          "roman": "za neiménijem lučševo",
          "sense": "for want of something better",
          "word": "за неиме́нием лучшего"
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      "ipa": "/-ˈmjø/",
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "for want of something better",
      "word": "i mangel af bedre"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "for want of something better",
      "word": "paremman puutteessa"
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      "sense": "for want of something better",
      "word": "faute de mieux"
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    {
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      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "for want of something better",
      "word": "en manko di plu bona (ulo)"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "za neiménijem lučševo",
      "sense": "for want of something better",
      "word": "за неиме́нием лучшего"
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  "word": "faute de mieux"
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