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gaucherie
noun as in faux pas
noun as in improperness
noun as in impropriety
noun as in impudency
Weak matches
- assumption
- audaciousness
- audacity
- barbarism
- blunder
- boldness
- brashness
- brazenness
- cheek
- cheekiness
- chutzpah
- discourtesy
- disrespect
- effrontery
- face
- familiarity
- faux pas
- forwardness
- gaffe
- gall
- goof
- immodesty
- impertinence
- incivility
- incongruity
- incorrectness
- indecency
- indecorum
- inelegance
- insolence
- nerve
- nerviness
- overconfidence
- pertness
- presumptuousness
- pushiness
- rudeness
- sassiness
- sauciness
- slip
- solecism
- unseemliness
- unsuitability
- vulgarism
- vulgarity
noun as in inappropriateness
noun as in indecorum
noun as in indelicacy
noun as in indiscretion
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in unbecomingness
noun as in unfitness
noun as in unseemliness
noun as in unsuitability
Example Sentences
She could not resist the delicate malice of the exclamation, she imitated the gaucherie so delightfully.
I was sorry that I had spoken English before him so heedlessly, and resolved that I would never be guilty of such gaucherie again.
The discomfited lady-killer, aspersing the name of Anna with an insolent gaucherie, has his ears boxed for his pains.
Her gaucherie was painful to her and evident and very dear to the man perceiving it.
He left her standing with heightened color blaming herself bitterly for her gaucherie.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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