gaucherie

Example Sentences

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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

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

Or he may not; a major gaucherie, of course, is for a professor to react to a feeler that wasn't there.

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