Example Sentences

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What exercises her critics now is the preferential treatment that is so gauchely being shovelled her way.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2017

Even his son Eric, speaking to the Guardian at the victory party on Tuesday night in Trump Tower, the candidate’s gauchely glittering Manhattan home, expressed surprise at how his father had pulled it off.

From The Guardian • May 4, 2016

Gethin Anthony as the false Dmitry suggests a gauchely youthful figure driven by a boredom with the monastic life.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

Laura Pitt-Pulford is mesmerising from the moment she stumbles gauchely into Sennett's studio.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012

She wore the same expression that she had done on our first meeting, when I dropped my gloves so gauchely on the floor.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier