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Definition of gauche in English: gaucheadjective ɡəʊʃɡoʊʃ Unsophisticated and socially awkward. 笨拙的，不优雅的；不圆滑的，缺少社交经验的 a shy and gauche teenager Example sentencesExamples - I think she was a little gauche, thoroughly charmed by the literary excitement of it all, and didn't realise he was maybe a little more amorous than she gave him credit for.
- My own first exposure would be 15 years later, gaping with a group of gauche friends at a third-generation video copy procured by an entrepreneurial older schoolboy.
- The ensemble playing that provides the story's milieu has an organic feel, but is often fussy and gauche when what's required is brisk, broad caricature.
- The former claimed he had stolen their patter, the latter that his vulgar, earthy humour was the contradictory métier of a gauche social climber.
- Everyone is so dramatically over-styled that in my messy cords & borrowed denim jacket I felt somewhat gauche.
- It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing.
- I anticipated someone overtly bookish, withdrawn or slightly gauche, and whose idea of fun was deciphering crossword puzzles.
- How gauche I was to say what I thought and wanted!
- Wandering downstairs, I saw a gauche teenager sat on the bench seat near the exit - just him and a camera case on a seat for three.
- Maybe it's gauche to ask somebody if they got contacts.
- It was all very serious, with a constant fear of getting some nuance wrong, of revealing the gauche suburban soul beneath the fishnet tights.
- I would have loved to pair my cheese with a red wine but because of medication I am currently unable to drink so I settled for the very gauche option of a bowl of latte instead.
- I realize I am helpless in the face of such penetratingly gauche cluelessness, and thus, I do the only thing I can do.
- It's a shame that this album highlight is immediately followed by a song so embarrassingly gauche.
- Do you think this is a bit loud, you know, gauche, for someone in my condition?
- Well, that may have at one time been the case, back before it became gauche, but let me assure you, that is most definitely NOT the case anymore.
- I've been told repeatedly that the residents of LA never ask for autographs - it's considered gauche.
- He was, though, hopeless as a TV presenter: gauche, clumsy, slow, tongue-tied, forgetful, dull and disengaged.
- The dizziness might be from the faint memory of my uneasy childhood, the memory of my gauche first love, or from the memory of every humiliation I have had.
- There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness.
Synonyms awkward, gawky, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, ungainly, bumbling, maladroit, inept socially awkward, socially inept, lacking in social grace(s), unpolished, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, raw, inexperienced, uneducated, unworldly
Derivativesadverb It tries to be well-mannered but fails gauchely and hugely: the only great thing about it save its name is its size (which fails to impress because of the very tightness of the building's disposition on its site). Example sentencesExamples - As for him, he is in fine form, gauchely approaching me with hand outstretched, his enormous blue eyes, rosy cheeks and slight, boyish frame belying the fact that he turned 32 in July.
- Nietzsche was invited to form the third side of the triangle and instantly fell gauchely in love.
- It seems almost gauchely obvious to complain.
- He combined his Gothic physical persona with a set of gauchely theatrical mannerisms, a non-stop performance of poetical sensitivity.
nounˈɡəʊʃnəsˈɡoʊʃnəs He captures the gaucheness, but he's just too enthusiastic for my liking. Example sentencesExamples - The gaucheness of her effusive praise for an embarrassed Duncan proves where the power in her relationship lies - and it is not with her.
- Adam is clearly a failed superhero: he has all the weirdo-kid and gaucheness of the generic superhero before the ‘change’ (think Clark Kent), but somehow is stuck in a pre-change world.
- When he retires at the age of 65, he is bereft, a man adrift, but he sweetly embraces his new life with all the gaucheness of a teenager on a gap year.
- Surrounded by the gaucheness of punk, and possessing cheekbones you could hang coats on, the age factor added to her alluring image of mature sexuality.
OriginMid 18th century: French, literally 'left'. Definition of gauche in US English: gaucheadjectiveɡoʊʃɡōSH Lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated and socially awkward. 笨拙的，不优雅的；不圆滑的，缺少社交经验的 a shy and gauche teenager Example sentencesExamples - How gauche I was to say what I thought and wanted!
- Wandering downstairs, I saw a gauche teenager sat on the bench seat near the exit - just him and a camera case on a seat for three.
- The dizziness might be from the faint memory of my uneasy childhood, the memory of my gauche first love, or from the memory of every humiliation I have had.
- The former claimed he had stolen their patter, the latter that his vulgar, earthy humour was the contradictory métier of a gauche social climber.
- It was all very serious, with a constant fear of getting some nuance wrong, of revealing the gauche suburban soul beneath the fishnet tights.
- I think she was a little gauche, thoroughly charmed by the literary excitement of it all, and didn't realise he was maybe a little more amorous than she gave him credit for.
- My own first exposure would be 15 years later, gaping with a group of gauche friends at a third-generation video copy procured by an entrepreneurial older schoolboy.
- It's a shame that this album highlight is immediately followed by a song so embarrassingly gauche.
- He was, though, hopeless as a TV presenter: gauche, clumsy, slow, tongue-tied, forgetful, dull and disengaged.
- The ensemble playing that provides the story's milieu has an organic feel, but is often fussy and gauche when what's required is brisk, broad caricature.
- I realize I am helpless in the face of such penetratingly gauche cluelessness, and thus, I do the only thing I can do.
- I would have loved to pair my cheese with a red wine but because of medication I am currently unable to drink so I settled for the very gauche option of a bowl of latte instead.
- I anticipated someone overtly bookish, withdrawn or slightly gauche, and whose idea of fun was deciphering crossword puzzles.
- There were awkward speeches saying kind and clumsy things, gauche jokes and real fondness.
- Do you think this is a bit loud, you know, gauche, for someone in my condition?
- It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing.
- Maybe it's gauche to ask somebody if they got contacts.
- Well, that may have at one time been the case, back before it became gauche, but let me assure you, that is most definitely NOT the case anymore.
- I've been told repeatedly that the residents of LA never ask for autographs - it's considered gauche.
- Everyone is so dramatically over-styled that in my messy cords & borrowed denim jacket I felt somewhat gauche.
Synonyms awkward, gawky, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, ungainly, bumbling, maladroit, inept
OriginMid 18th century: French, literally ‘left’. |