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

But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grace's flat voice and frozen facial muscles are a perfect foil for her husband's oafish ardors and accomplished gaucherie.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Stark Young � "A little melodrama, brightened with the happy gaucheries of puppets in their wires and plumes and shields of brass, but delayed with a loosely threaded tale and vaguish manner of telling."

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