Adjective : Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche. From Dictionary.com.
I think Andrew Collins suffers from a kind of gaucheness that some find annoying. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
If so, her gaucheness almost made him change his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Master of Pleasure]
She was sophisticated enough to recognize its gaucheness. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
More charitable souls than me will find this gaucheness endearing. From Wordnik.com. [Brown gets his Oval Office moment] Reference
They had a certain gaucheness about them that their neighbors found offputting. From Wordnik.com. [Every Breath You Take] Reference
She looked as if she'd never suffered from the normal gaucheness of a young teenager. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Lawman]
While you are being snooty about Ming's media gaucheness, thanks for IDS and Dracula in recent times. From Wordnik.com. [Ming Fails to Impress 5 Live Listeners] Reference
She was a big, broad-shouldered girl at eighteen and a half, still awkward with the gaucheness of a puppy. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
And for that reason, in spite of his gaucheness (in her eyes) she was inclined to tolerate him — to see how he would do. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
Dust off the Laura Ingraham "shut up and sing" injunction, and wield it against singer Annie Lennox, who had the gaucheness to decry the carnage being carried out by the Israeli military against the citizens of Gaza. From Wordnik.com. [At the Corner of Hollywood and Whine: James Wolcott] Reference
The bravado of her entry had gone, replaced suddenly by the gaucheness of a nineteen-year-old who wished she was a child again and could be reassured by an adult that there were no ghosts or ghoulies lurking in the shadows. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
And though he had not thought of her constantly or even often during the past ten years, he had thought of her occasionally and always with a pang of nostalgia and regret for the gaucheness that had killed his chances with her. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
But the polemicist in me is offended by the gaucheness of their efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The performance's overt gaucheness and shaky delivery left them asking why. From Wordnik.com. [Channel3000.com - Local News] Reference
And Miss Abbott -- she, too, was beautiful in her way, for all her gaucheness and conventionality. From Wordnik.com. [Where Angels Fear to Tread] Reference
Von Holzen was betrayed into a momentary gaucheness, as if he were not quite at home in a drawing-room. From Wordnik.com. [Roden's Corner] Reference
We will have to wait for W's biography for his explanation of this gaucheness, which came to define his presidency. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
This isn't exactly the classiest move, for reasons which go beyond the general gaucheness of suddenly ditching a public commitment. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
"She dealt with my inexperience and gaucheness with kindness, tenderness and patience, and for this I have been eternally grateful to her.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
"There's a sense of there being a gaucheness in spending in excess and coming home with a Louis Vuitton or Chanel bag," says Lucyann Barry. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
I used to loathe its happy-clappy gaucheness, but now I quite like it, despite knowing that there's nothing gauche about its indomitable owner. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Miss Dodds and Rickman are canny enough in their sentimental agitprop to play up the gaucheness, to establish it as part of the character's charm. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
"She dealt with my inexperience and gaucheness with kindness, tenderness and patience, and for this I have been eternally grateful to her," he adds. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The superb Gale is the night's stand-out, capturing the engaging gaucheness of a girl as well as a young woman's intensity in her first love affair. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
The British duo of Hannah Whelan and Nicole Hibbert, who giggled along to the BBC's interviewer on Friday night, oozed teenage gaucheness, not prepubescent girl. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Hu's visit to America went over very well too; he even got sympathy for having to suffer the heckling of that FLG protester, and the general gaucheness of The Shrub. From Wordnik.com. [The Peking Duck] Reference
Paperplain seems incapable of making a statement without wrapping it in dulling, cotton-wool swathes of gaucheness - and it's this lack of lyrical assertiveness that renders. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
Now his manner is more assured, the deliberate gaucheness tempered by a relaxed interaction with the audience which allows him to banter with his sound man, Fletch, and deftly field an over-enthusiastic fan in the front row. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"Marged, I was a boy with a boy's cravings and a boy's gaucheness. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
Pardon the gaucheness of replying to one’s own post, but we just found out our friends are safe. From Wordnik.com. [iPodderX Name Change] Reference
The beauty is in the subtle gaucheness. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
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