gaucherie
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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
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
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
I went to our table, looking straight before me, and immediately paid the penalty of gaucherie by knocking over the vase of stiff anemones as I unfolded my napkin.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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 ● Aug. 4, 2020
The flubs, freakouts and gaucheries of the actress’s interviews and award-show moments – so Tumblred, tweeted and adored – have by now probably drawn as many eyes as her extraordinary film performances.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015
But her book should not be mistaken for a mere gibe at the gaucheries of a raw culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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