gaucherie

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"Ordinarily, I should respect a host's privacy to the extent that I should walk a hundred miles round rather than stumble upon it, but this time I do not know whether to blame myself for my gaucherie or feel pleased that for once it brought me into good company.

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  1. noun An awkward or tactless act, manner, or expression.
  2. noun A lack of tact; awkwardness.

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  • Let us not waste the hour with rhetorizing He was unperturbed and held Petrinius in one of the mildest of his mild gazes, unruffled by the artist's calculated gaucherie, a commodity he seemed to possess in abundant store. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • “But, David, much as I dislike reproving you for a gaucherie, I am compelled to do so.” She was only half playful about it. —  The Luxembourg Run
  • But you know the royals must be chuckling at our new First Lady's artless fashion gaucherie. —  Cats Working
  • "I have something serious to say to you I am not in the mind for anything serious tonight," she answered, "and this is not the place for anything serious I am in the mood," I said, "and the place will do well enough She flashed her eyes at me with a sudden anger Is that an impertinence or a gaucherie?" —  In Direst Peril
  • Rosalie's Western gaucherie was beneath her notice. —  Peggy Stewart at School
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  1. French, from gauche, gauche; see gauche.

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  1. French, from gauche, left, left-handed, clumsy: see gauche.
 

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