单词 | gaucherie |
释义 | gaucherie (once / 34062 pages) n WORD FAMILY gaucherie: gaucheries USAGE EXAMPLESThe American’s attempt to seem sophisticated is thus taken by the waiter as a mark of irredeemable American gaucherie. The New Yorker(Oct 16, 2015) With her background and Boethian worldview, she would take a very stoic and fatalistic view of whatever sexual gaucheries and blunders he committed. John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces(1980) The youngest girl, whose hat was lying upon the platform some distance away, hung her head in a very pretty attitude of shy gaucherie. Weyman, Stanley John, The King's Stratagem and Other Stor...(2012) 1n the quality of being rustic or gauche Syn|Ant|Hyper rusticity urbanity the quality or character of life in a city or town awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) 2n a socially awkward or tactless act Syn|Hyper faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall an embarrassing mistake |
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