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Gaucherie

noun
1.
The quality of being rustic or gauche.  Synonym: rusticity.
2.
A socially awkward or tactless act.  Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism.





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"Gaucherie" Quotes from Famous Books



... next see you, do not let me go on and on to my confusion about matters I am more or less ignorant of, but always ignorant. I tell you plainly I only trench on them, and intrench in them, from gaucherie, pure and respectable ... I should certainly grow instructive on the prospects of hay-crops and pasture-land, if deprived of this resource. And now here is a week to wait before I shall have any occasion to relapse ...
— The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett


Words linked to "Gaucherie" :   awkwardness, gaffe, boo-boo, solecism, flub, fuckup, slip, foul-up, rusticity, stiffness, boner, botch, faux pas, bungle, blunder, urbanity, blooper, clumsiness, gracelessness, pratfall, bloomer


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