gaucherie
lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness; crudeness; tactlessness.
an act, movement, etc., that is socially graceless, awkward, or tactless.
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How to use gaucherie in a sentence
She could not resist the delicate malice of the exclamation, she imitated the gaucherie so delightfully.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete | Gilbert ParkerI was sorry that I had spoken English before him so heedlessly, and resolved that I would never be guilty of such gaucherie again.
John Bull on the Guadalquivir | Anthony TrollopeThe discomfited lady-killer, aspersing the name of Anna with an insolent gaucherie, has his ears boxed for his pains.
Modernities | Horace Barnett SamuelHer gaucherie was painful to her and evident and very dear to the man perceiving it.
Under the Law | Edwina Stanton BabcockHe left her standing with heightened color blaming herself bitterly for her gaucherie.
Tam O' The Scoots | Edgar Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for gaucherie
/ (ˌɡəʊʃəˈriː, ˈɡəʊʃərɪ, French ɡoʃri) /
the quality of being gauche
a gauche act
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