gauche

[gohsh] / goʊʃ /

ADJECTIVE

tactless, unsophisticated

Synonyms

WEAK

awkward bumbling clumsy crude graceless green halting ham-handed heavy-handed ignorant ill-bred ill-mannered inelegant inept insensitive lacking maladroit oafish uncouth uncultured unhappy unpolished wooden

Antonyms

WEAK

elegant graceful mannerly polished refined sophisticated tactful tasteful

Example Sentences

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I was the gauchest thing you ever saw.

From Time Magazine Archive

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