gauche

IPA: gˈoʊʃ

adjective

  • Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
  • (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
  • (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
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Examples of "gauche" in Sentences

  • If I were strapping a sword and a main gauche, that is.
  • I'm not sure: was it considered "gauche" or did the chomping frazzle my father's ...
  • “Bella,” chided Mrs. Griffiths, while Myra, recalling a gauche uncle and cousin who had come on from Vermont several years before to visit them
  • They had begun at once to employ upon him the oldest arts known to woman, and he was not flustered or "gauche" -- a word Winona had lately learned.
  • Admission: I'm a southpaw myself, but my main gauche still lags behind its more popular sibling in terms of technique, so I'm not sure how much this would help me.
  • Nixon worked his way through a crowd, shaking hands, and in his "gauche" (Brown's word) way, tried to connect with people by asking them, "How does it feel to be free?"
  • Like, when one of the characters extolls Beowulf's deeds and says how his story will live on forever, and you think, yeah, until a millenia and a bit later when it'll get dug up, rewired into a monstrously misshapen thing, painted in gauche muticolour, and made to dance like a monkey-puppet in a Follywood Spectacular.

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