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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An awkward action; awkwardness; bungling; clumsiness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A socially tactless or awkward act.
  2. n. Lack of tact; tactlessness; awkwardness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a socially awkward or tactless act
  2. n. the quality of being rustic or gauche

Etymologies

  1. French, from gauche, gauche; see gauche.

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