Gauche

//ɡəʊʃ//

"Gauche" in a Sentence (7 examples)

Tom is so naive that his gauche manners can hardly offend anyone.

A Parliamentary Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things, and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent.

I am so gauche with these wretched baubles.

"Oh, what are you like? You're so gauche!" she laughed. "Here, read this." She threw a book towards me. I caught it. "What is it?" "A sodding book! What do you think it is?"

Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display In 'good society', to make her way

She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.

"He's a trifle gauche" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less gauche."

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