Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An awkward or tactless act, manner, or expression.
- noun A lack of tact; awkwardness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An awkward action; awkwardness; bungling; clumsiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
socially tactless orawkward act . - noun Lack of
tact ; tactlessness; awkwardness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a socially awkward or tactless act
- noun the quality of being rustic or gauche
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today described the behaviour of MPs in Parliament over the issue of increasing their salaries as "gaucherie", saying this gives a wrong impression about those who are in politics.
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A few men suppress coughs, but most people in the room are hard of hearing, so the minor gaucherie passes without notice.
Jack Kerouac, Republican Party Hero Con Chapman 2011
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No one has ever accused Trump of being a slave to dignity, but this public quibbling over the size of his bank account raises the bar on gaucherie.
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Malcolm Turnbull, was to be my morning blast today – but even shades of his amazing gaucherie has failed to make the passing grade.
Publicity Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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Malcolm Turnbull, was to be my morning blast today – but even shades of his amazing gaucherie has failed to make the passing grade.
Archive 2009-08-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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But he has allowed his enemies to represent him as a figure of immense gaucherie, cynicism, and stupidity.
Mark Miller: Newspaper Swindlers Black and Radler Look Quaint by Today's Standards 2009
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We've looked the other way at the gaucherie of extreme consumption, spawned by the greatest concentration of wealth since the 1920s.
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If anyone has the gaucherie to point out the left's nearly unblemished record of rooting against America, liberals turn around and scream "McCarthyism!"
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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If anyone has the gaucherie to point out the left's nearly unblemished record of rooting against America, liberals turn around and scream "McCarthyism!"
Hullabaloo 2007
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At which Sir Charles burst out into a yelling laugh, and made me blush not a little at my gaucherie; for the fact is, seeing him in the condition in which he was, I could not help speculating upon the chance a man of spirit might have with his widow.
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