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gauche
1. A castle that wasn't taller than it was wide, and wasn't wider at the top than it was at the base, was distinctly gauche
2. Here, having more than you needed was considered gauche
3. All you need to do is learn the correct and most nonchalant way to lean, and you can shed that bumbling, gauche exterior once and for all
4. the bed and stepped into the centre of the room, gauche on my
5. We were all equally gauche, it was our first experience of roulette – illegal in England, and so we simply bet noisily and excitedly on odds and evens or red and black, to the annoyance of the croupier, until we lost everything
6. How gauche of me to ask you to hold another woman's flowers
7. gauche and his tales ridiculous
8. There can’t be a more gauche situation than that
9. Rex's age was greatly in his favour, for among Julia's friends there was a kind of gerontophilic snobbery; young men were held to be gauche and pimply; it was thought very much more chic to be seen lunching alone at the Ritz - a thing, in any case, allowed to few girls of that day, to the tiny circle of Julia's intimates; a thing looked at askance by the elders who kept the score, chatting pleasantly against the walls of the ballrooms - at the table on the left as you came in, with a starched and wrinkled old roué whom your mother had be warned of as a girl, than than in the centre of the room with a party of exuberant young bloods
10. Feeling that his question was somewhat gauche, he smiled angrily
11. Also, her peculiar gaiety—which always sounded as though she were laughing at herself, at you, and at the world in general—was gauche and anything but infectious, while her sympathy was too evidently forced