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

However much his domestic policies may be commended, in Viet Nam he advertises his gaucherie in foreign affairs.

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 went to our table, looking straight before me, and immediately paid the penalty of gaucherie by knocking over the vase of stiff anemones as I unfolded my napkin.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier