gaucheness
IPA: gˈoʊʃnʌs
noun
- The quality of being gauche.
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Examples of "gaucheness" in Sentences
- I think Andrew Collins suffers from a kind of gaucheness that some find annoying.
- There was none of the gaucheness that a stereotype of the scholar might throw up.
- What makes the Jack Flash sequences arguably escapist is not just their gaucheness but the vicarious thrill of his anti-establishment rebellion.
- "The gaucheness with which both Facebookand now Google Buzz have gone about such a noble, selfless pursuit of their future is quite staggering."
- The charge of gaucheness can, of course, be dismissed as missing the point in fiction where this is a crucial feature of the narrative voice, where the elevated register is an intentional technique for representing character.
- And when it comes down to it, the charge of gaucheness may be an aesthetic rather than moral judgement, and founded on a fairly accurate assessment of bad craft -- that a grandiose register is not just gratuitous, but is in fact counter-productive, harmful to the work.
- That gaucheness, he believed, set the establishment against him and, though Waters explains that Trueman shared the blame for his outlaw image, one cannot help wonder how he might have flourished had he been given the sympathetic treatment at last afforded him by his club when the unsung Ronnie Burnet became captain in 1958.
- Ferguson has to see Rio Ferdinand as more of a squad player and Phil Jones, despite all the interest taken in him, is a youngster still to learn the trade of centre-half, which is why Ferguson is inclined to play safe and put him elsewhere in the lineup so that any gaucheness or mistakes are more likely to be covered by team-mates.
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