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
The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing gaucherie
