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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



... the director's room, he looked terribly bored and sat on the sofa at the end of the room with his hat pushed back on his head. Caricatures filled the opposition papers. He was spoken of as the "Illinois ape" and the "gorilla." Every rash remark, every "break" in social form, every gaucherie was seized ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson



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



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