gaucherie

Guadagnino says, clearly amused by his youthful gaucherie.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2016

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.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2015

The way she walked, spoke and combed her hair had a sureness that gives moviegoers a comfortable feeling: she would never make them wince with some awkwardness of misplaced gaucherie.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am very different from that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with an intense desire to please.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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.

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

The flubs, freakouts and gaucheries of the actress’s interviews and award-show moments – so Tumblred, tweeted and adored – have by now probably drawn as many eyes as her extraordinary film performances.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015

She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lucy commits delirious gaucheries in a Park Avenue drawing room to free Jerry from an entangling alliance, contrives a sprightly midnight reconciliation that must have given the Hays office a bad ten minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The throat pain always returns, though, unless I tell what I really think, whether or not I lose my job, or spit out gaucheries all over a party.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston