Crossword clues for gaucherie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gaucherie \Gauche`rie"\, n. [F.] An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1798, from French gaucherie, from gauche (see gauche).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A socially tactless or awkward act. 2 Lack of tact; tactlessness; awkwardness.
WordNet
Usage examples of "gaucherie".
Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.
She was not accustomed to that inquisitive social gaucherie that Anglo-Saxon cultures mistake for admirable frankness.
I was shaking my head over the gaucherie the mouse stopped, looked around, then nodded to me and winked.
Yet gold was worth a little gaucherie, especially in the quantities this self-styled black beast hinted at.
How many deliberate heightenings of dialect, breaches of conversational taste, gaucheries at table had Stencil seen dedicated to that intention?
Her mud stupidities, as well as the frequent gaucheries which seemed to bother others, he thought of as merely amusing-perhaps because he grew tired at times of being surrounded by clever, vigilant minds, forever striving to match the astuteness of his own.
Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.
Her mud stupidities, as well as the frequent gaucheries which seemed to bother others, he thought of as merely amusing-perhaps because he grew tired at times of being surrounded by clever, vigilant minds, forever striving to match the astuteness of his own.
The diverse demands and unforeseen surges of the day, in tandem with tonight's elevated blood alcohol levels, have driven her circuitry into a sputtering staticky condition near brownout or worse, she's phasing eccentrically in and out, her attention temporarily and fiercely magnetized by the oddest fragments of isolated fact, so while Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.
How many deliberate heightenings of dialect, breaches of conversational taste, gaucheries at table had Stencil seen dedicated to that intention?