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gauche

  [gohsh]
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–adjective
lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
Origin:
1745–55; < F: awkward, left; MF, deriv. of gauchir to turn, veer < Gmc

Related forms:
gauchely, adverb
gaucheness, noun

Synonyms:
inept, clumsy, maladroit; coarse, gross, uncouth.
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gauche   (gōsh)   
adj.  Lacking social polish; tactless.

[French, awkward, lefthanded, from Old French, from gauchir, to turn aside, walk clumsily, of Germanic origin.]
gauche'ly adv., gauche'ness n.
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