gaucherie
Example Sentences
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I am very different from that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with an intense desire to please.
From Literature
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
The throat pain always returns, though, unless I tell what I really think, whether or not I lose my job, or spit out gaucheries all over a party.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
