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Gaucherie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An awkward or tactless act, manner, or expression.

n. A lack of tact; awkwardness.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A socially tactless or awkward act.

n. Lack of tact; tactlessness; awkwardness.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An awkward action; awkwardness; bungling; clumsiness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a socially awkward or tactless act

n. the quality of being rustic or gauche

Word Usage

"Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today described the behaviour of MPs in Parliament over the issue of increasing their salaries as "gaucherie", saying this gives a wrong impression about those who are in politics."

Hypernym

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boo-boo fuckup bloomer foul-up pratfall

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

clumsiness boorishness

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