gaucherie

Determined to escape the gaucheries of the family’s exclusive Turtle Creek enclave, Yvonne ascends from cheerleader to top majorette baton twirler to debutante to sorority girl.

My shyness and gaucherie became worse, too, making me stolid and dumb when people came to the house.

Mr. Tillerson does not let fall from his lips such gaucherie as “radical Islamic terrorism.”

The American’s attempt to seem sophisticated is thus taken by the waiter as a mark of irredeemable American gaucherie.

Sommeliers look a bit shocked if I order a pretty pink rosé, and although I’ve tried to defy it, my mother’s commandment about the gaucherie of wearing white after Labor Day haunts me.