gauche
lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
Origin of gauche
1Other words for gauche
Other words from gauche
- gauchely, adverb
- gaucheness, noun
Words that may be confused with gauche
- gauche , gouache
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How to use gauche in a sentence
Why would his colleagues do this, if they did not already know of his gaucheness with girls?
Beethoven in Love: The Woman Who Captivated the Young Composer | John Suchet | January 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd Miss Abbott—she, too, was beautiful in her way, for all her gaucheness and conventionality.
Where Angels Fear to Tread | E. M. ForsterVon Holzen was betrayed into a momentary gaucheness, as if he were not quite at home in a drawing-room.
Roden's Corner | Henry Seton Merriman
British Dictionary definitions for gauche
/ (ɡəʊʃ) /
lacking ease of manner; tactless
Origin of gauche
1Derived forms of gauche
- gauchely, adverb
- gaucheness, noun
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