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Apr. 21, 2015

gauche \gohsh\ adjective 1. lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche. Quotes The current Rocky is gauche and inaccurate, but besides being persistent he is a dreadfully severe hitter with either hand. -- A. J. Liebling, "Ahab and Nemesis," The New Yorker, October 8, 1955 Origin Gauche entered English in the 1740s from the French word of the same spelling meaning "awkward, left."

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