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- adverb In a
gauche manner.
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Examples
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Alpha Protocol, PC, PS3, Xbox 360Made by the people who brought you Knights Of The Old Republic, a superb role-playing game set in the Star Wars universe, Alpha Protocol is set firmly on Earth, and sees you recruited by the usual clandestine spy organisation for whom the CIA is gauchely mainstream.
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But I'm certainly not gauchely hoarding every possible name like some addled teenager.
Victoria Lautman: Facebook 'Friends' and the Gentle Art of Summer Poaching 2009
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Well, this purposeful books gauchely spread together with this angelic audiobooks.
Planet-x.com.au » Collectables – Radio – Telecom Radio Telephones PMG Phonographs 2009
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The two concluding beats of the phrase are gauchely fleshed out by repeat strums.
Da Blues scusteister 2008
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In an attempt at a joke, we tried to pose a photo of yours truly attempting to insert himself into this vehicle by gauchely resting his semi-full champagne flute on the roof.
L.A. Auto Show Dispatch: Bailout? What Bailout?: Brett Berk Berk, Brett 2008
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That's gauchely personal, and even worse--it's childish.
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It's become one of the rare post - Katrina success stories, an achievement gauchely (ph) acknowledged by the principal.
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No-one wants to mirror Julian Fellowes who, so the story goes, permits himself a smirk when his dinner guests gauchely tip their soup bowls toward them, rather than away.
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But being from the New World, I perhaps gauchely misunderstood the British class system.
The Guardian World News Hadley Freeman 2011
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From the 1870s until about 10 years before his death in 1917, Degas knocked out one magnificently drawn, gauchely posed female nude after another.
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