gaucherie
Example Sentences
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Mr. Tillerson does not let fall from his lips such gaucherie as “radical Islamic terrorism.”
From Washington Times
The American’s attempt to seem sophisticated is thus taken by the waiter as a mark of irredeemable American gaucherie.
From The New Yorker
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
The youngest girl, whose hat was lying upon the platform some distance away, hung her head in a very pretty attitude of shy gaucherie.
From Project Gutenberg
The blood flew to her face again and it was with an embarrassment, a gaucherie, the like of which she could not remember, that she extended her hand toward the errant sunshade.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
