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gauche
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
gaucher; gauchest
gaucher; gauchest
Learner's definition of GAUCHE
[also more gauche; most gauche]
: having or showing a lack of awareness about the proper way to behave : socially awkward缺乏社交经验的；不善交际的；笨拙的
- a gauche young man不善交际的年轻男士
- He has gauche manners.他的行为举止欠老练。
- Would it be gauche of me to ask her how old she is?我问她的年龄会不会显得很无礼？
— gaucheness
noun, chiefly British [noncount]- the gaucheness of his manner他的举止的笨拙
sometimes gaucher; sometimes gauchest
gauchely adverb
gaucheness noun
Did you know?
Gauche and Being Left-Handed
Gauche is one of several words that come from old suspicions or negative associations surrounding the left side and use of the left hand. In French, gauche literally means "left," and it has the extended meanings "awkward" and "clumsy." These meanings may have come about because left-handed people could appear awkward trying to manage in a right-handed world, or perhaps they came about because right-handed people appear awkward when they try to use their left hand. In fact, awkward comes from the Middle English awke, meaning "turned the wrong way" or "left-handed." On the other hand, adroit and dexterity have their roots in words meaning "right" or "on the right side."
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Among élite scientists, it was usually considered gauche to be obsessed with anything so tangible or immediate: brilliant discoveries were supposed to percolate. 
Michael Specter, New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2007 … furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City … Marc A. Schindler, Verbatim, Spring 1992 We were suburban housewives and mothers. As poets we took a respectful backseat to the male poets. We did not talk about our husbands and children in public; that would have been gauche indeed. Maxine Kumin, In Deep, 1987 So lofty was her depreciatory manner that I felt myself gauche and was put on the defensive. Joseph Heller, God Knows, 1984 Would it be gauche of me to ask her how old she is? his loud talking at the opera marked him as gauche and uncultured See More
Michael Specter, New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2007 … furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City … Marc A. Schindler, Verbatim, Spring 1992 We were suburban housewives and mothers. As poets we took a respectful backseat to the male poets. We did not talk about our husbands and children in public; that would have been gauche indeed. Maxine Kumin, In Deep, 1987 So lofty was her depreciatory manner that I felt myself gauche and was put on the defensive. Joseph Heller, God Knows, 1984 Would it be gauche of me to ask her how old she is? his loud talking at the opera marked him as gauche and uncultured See More Recent Examples on the Web That would be too gauche, too legislative for the court. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 May 2022 Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche. Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021 Maybe French tips aren't gauche for the Met Gala, after all. Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 8 June 2018 Another newspaper innovation introduced by Nicholson was a society column, which was seen by some in the city as gauche and bordering on scandalous. NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018 However, purists view purchasing king cakes before Jan. 6 as a demonstration of gauche impatience. NOLA.com, 5 Jan. 2018 Today, mass production and an abundance of cheap knockoffs have rendered conspicuous consumption unremarkable at best and gauche at worst. J.c. Pan, New Republic, 1 Aug. 2017 Old money, historically, has been stereotyped as having a Brahmin disdain for such a gauche topic. Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2017 See More
Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 May 2022 Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche. Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021 Maybe French tips aren't gauche for the Met Gala, after all. Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 8 June 2018 Another newspaper innovation introduced by Nicholson was a society column, which was seen by some in the city as gauche and bordering on scandalous. NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018 However, purists view purchasing king cakes before Jan. 6 as a demonstration of gauche impatience. NOLA.com, 5 Jan. 2018 Today, mass production and an abundance of cheap knockoffs have rendered conspicuous consumption unremarkable at best and gauche at worst. J.c. Pan, New Republic, 1 Aug. 2017 Old money, historically, has been stereotyped as having a Brahmin disdain for such a gauche topic. Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2017 See More Word History
Etymology
French, literally, left
First Known Use
1751, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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