gaucherie
Example Sentences
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Determined to escape the gaucheries of the family’s exclusive Turtle Creek enclave, Yvonne ascends from cheerleader to top majorette baton twirler to debutante to sorority girl.
From New York Times
Mr. Tillerson does not let fall from his lips such gaucherie as “radical Islamic terrorism.”
From Washington Times
The American’s attempt to seem sophisticated is thus taken by the waiter as a mark of irredeemable American gaucherie.
From The New Yorker
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
With her background and Boethian worldview, she would take a very stoic and fatalistic view of whatever sexual gaucheries and blunders he committed.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
