gaucherie

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

Among selected U.S. audiences who were allowed to see the film, some persons who had been close to Kennedy felt that it reflected too much Hollywood gaucherie.

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

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

As for beauty, Dorothy had fallen for Josef's dark looks, and learned beauty was deceptive; she was prepared to settle for Red's mottled ugliness and honest gaucheries of manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

This, then, is the Conversation Hour: the time to touch lightly on the need for a new vacuum cleaner, his gaucheries at last night's bridge party, the prospects for remedying his cultural poverty .

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