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While not quite reheating-fish-in-the-microwave egregious, using speakers in an open office is rather gauche.

Ambition was deemed gauche, so rock bands had to spend a decade pretending they didn’t care about their life’s work.

In the academic confines of museums, such talk of marketing and the bottom line qualifies as gauche.

About 16% support the far-right National Front and about 17% the neo-communist Left Front (Front de Gauche).

I was wearing a lacy black nightgown and Rive Gauche by St. Laurent when I let him in.

To someone who grew up in a diverse big city environment, the question sounds impossibly gauche if not offensive.

He came forward with a gauche gallantry, and offered his arm to Horatia.

I do not know of a more insidious temptation to buy what you do not need than loitering along the quais of the Rive Gauche.

The Main-gauche is also of the dagger order, but has a broad knuckle-guard and long straight quillons.

Le membre infrieur gauche, d'abord engourdi sa partie suprieure, prsenta aussi de la raideur.

My eyes glanced around to see the effect produced on my friends by my gauche cousin.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gauche, such as: awkward, bumbling, clumsy, crude, graceless, and green.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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