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
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
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
My shyness and gaucherie became worse, too, making me stolid and dumb when people came to the house.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
