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
It derives from a mixture of wishful thinking, impatience with American diplomatic gaucherie and envy of America's present wealth and power, and sheer inertia following upon four decades of tumultuous upheaval.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kansas Citians have a fetish for fountains; it is almost a gaucherie for a developer to erect a building without one outside.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
