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gaucherie

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How to use gaucherie in a sentence

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.

MODERNITIESHORACE BARNETT SAMUEL

Her gaucherie was painful to her and evident and very dear to the man perceiving it.

UNDER THE LAWEDWINA STANTON BABCOCK

He left her standing with heightened color blaming herself bitterly for her gaucherie.

And if anybody noticed the gaucherie it must have been just your brother!

It was some strangeness in her, possibly some unconscious gaucherie, that so often called his attention to herself.

THE OPENED SHUTTERSCLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

I should feel that you were lacking in tact, and I daresay I should take care not to lay myself open again to such gaucherie.

WINDFALLS(AKA ALPHA OF THE PLOUGH) ALFRED GEORGE GARDINER

But this British self-consciousness is no mere fluffy gaucherie, it is our special form of what Germans would call "Kultur."

ANOTHER SHEAFJOHN GALSWORTHY

But her uneasiness and gaucherie presently dissipated before the cordial and winning simplicity of Gloria's man.

WANTED: A HUSBANDSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

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OCTOBER 26, 1985