gaucheness
- a word derived from gauche.
Example Sentences
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There follows a catalog of gaucheness and indiscretion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
There is something about the blatant gaucheness of it all that seems to have inspired a particularly keen degree of investigative interest in the case.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2019
Chace has the kind of can-do American know-how of a Coen Brothers character, where bullheaded gaucheness acts as a disarming form of down-home competence.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2018
His gaucheness was real enough – still is, on occasion – and needed sympathetic management.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2010
Obinze was drawn to his gaucheness; in the young man’s clothes, and in the way that he stood, was an outsiderness he could not shield even if he had wanted to.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
