gauche
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A tan-in-a-bottle used to be considered gauche, but a booming interest in skin-care in recent years has rubbed off on self-tanners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Keir Starmer's team agonised over whether to bring crowds of supporters into Downing Street to wave and cheer his arrival, worried "it would look too gauche to have a celebration".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
But even five years of perpetual pregnancy hasn’t stopped the comedian known for being glamorously gauche, from saying the crude things we all think while wearing a chic outfit and a smile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
In England, though, many fans perceived it as the further desecration of a cornerstone of national culture: a soccer club’s being treated as an investment to be exploited by a gauche American owner.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2024
In the United Kingdom, everyone drives on the left, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that convention; it is in no way sinister, gauche, or socialist.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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