gauche
[gohsh]
adjective
lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
Origin of gauche
1745–55; < French: awkward, left; Middle French, derivative of gauchir to turn, veer < Germanic
Synonyms for gauche
à gauche
[a gohsh]
adverb French.
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Related Words for gauche
awkward, clumsy, crude, graceless, green, halting, heavy-handed, ignorant, ill-mannered, inelegant, inept, insensitive, lacking, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, uncultured, unhappy, unpolished, woodenExamples from the Web for gauche
Contemporary Examples of gauche
In the academic confines of museums, such talk of marketing and the bottom line qualifies as gauche.
Historical Examples of gauche
He came forward with a gauche gallantry, and offered his arm to Horatia.
Sarah's School FriendMay Baldwin
The gauche boy gone from him, Milt took her hand, pressed it to his cheek.
Free AirSinclair Lewis
If she were not so tall!how can one be anything but gauche with a figure like that?
The Garden of SwordsMax Pemberton
There is, even, in the architecture of Winnipeg, a sort of gauche pride visible.
Letters from AmericaRupert Brooke
He felt awkward, gauche, tongue-tied, hot and cold by turns.
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gauche
adjective
Word Origin for gauche
C18: French: awkward, left, from Old French gauchir to swerve, ultimately of Germanic origin; related to Old High German wankōn to stagger
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