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An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
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gaucheness
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
gaucheness \gauche"ness\ n. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement. Syn: crudeness, crudity.
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n. The quality of being gauche.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness" [syn: crudeness , crudity ]
Usage examples of gaucheness.
He demonstrated the accepted usages of knife, two-tined skewer, spoon, and panoplino-cloth, lectured him on the necessity of using only two fingers and the thumb of only one hand when not using utensils and of the utter gaucheness of plunging one's hand wrist-deep into a bowl to lift out stewed meat.
Jeremy Folk didn't answer directly, and when he stood up some of the habitual gaucheness had come back into his movements, though not yet into his voice.
The house smells like garlic and wood smoke, and Christmas lights glow while smoke drifts out the chimney, and when Marino arrives with all his typical noise and gaucheness he finds more happiness, than he has seen from any of us for a while.