gaucheries

Whether those have offenses are venial or mortal, malign or merely thoughtless, by the time they get to YouTube, they're all just gaucheries and gaffes, and they all require the same formulaic apology.

A Sensitive Subject: Harry Reid's Language On Race 2010

The sultan and dervish look with amused tolerance on the gaucheries of the European rubes.

Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009

We are apparently meant to think that Mary's gaucheries, her twitchy oddness, are a professional hazard.

'Steve' Is All About Inanity 2009

She detested Erik; gloated over his gaucheries — his “breaks,” she called them.

Main Street 2004

As the vice-presidential candidate uttered a series of gaucheries that came to be known as "Agnewisms", the theory developed that his appointment was really a clever kind of life insurance for Nixon.

Nixon—Humphrey—Wallace! How One Was Chosen 1968

Right now, on top of her other gaucheries, she was unscrewing the comb from her wrist -- an unfriendly if not quite a hostile act, as anyone must admit.

The Night of the Long Knives Fritz Leiber 1951

He isn't apt to find fault, but I am conscious that he is secretly criticising my dress, my dinners, the gaucheries of the servants, my moral qualities, even the way I turn my sentences.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

At the breakfast table it was, of course, my privilege to propose the health of the bride and bridegroom, which I most gladly did; and, let me say, so successfully as to bring back unwonted smiles to Campion's face, who now freely forgave me for the _gaucheries_ at the marriage service.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

And when those of a filial nature are brought into prominence, they, too, often have only a pathetic or painful aspect -- love on the one side repelled by indifference; an uncouth parent offering rough sympathy that irritates instead of soothes; a sensitive girl writhing under the brutalities or _gaucheries_ of a drunken father.

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Apart from the Second Act, where Miss MARIE LÖHR (looking rather like a nice Dutch doll) delivered the blunt gaucheries of _Remnant_ with a delightfully stolid naïveté, the design of the play and its simple little devices might almost have been the work of amateurs.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 Various