Her cousin's gaucherie embarrassed her. From LearnThat.org.
But he has allowed his enemies to represent him as a figure of immense gaucherie, cynicism, and stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Miller: Newspaper Swindlers Black and Radler Look Quaint by Today's Standards] Reference
"Is that an impertinence or a gaucherie?" she asked. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
A lone primrose turned its flower away from this gaucherie. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
She accepted this without gaucherie, almost as a matter of course. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
“But, David, much as I dislike reproving you for a gaucherie, I am compelled to do so.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Then she blushed even hotter, realizing the gaucherie of comparing her own manners with his. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
Only Westerners would have the gaucherie to come - directly to the main business to be discussed. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
I should then be certain that she extenuated my gaucherie at her party, whether I got speech with her or no. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
She wasn't sure whether he was dismayed at her gaucherie or just trying not to laugh, but she suspected the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
I was sorry that I had spoken English before him so heedlessly, and resolved that I would never be guilty of such gaucherie again. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
We've looked the other way at the gaucherie of extreme consumption, spawned by the greatest concentration of wealth since the 1920s. From Wordnik.com. [To The Rich, From America] Reference
Malcolm Turnbull, was to be my morning blast today – but even shades of his amazing gaucherie has failed to make the passing grade. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
A protest rose to Montaiglon's throat; a fury stirred him at the gaucherie that should bring Olivia's name upon the top of such a subject. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Mrs. Clibborn was continually mortifying her daughter by this kind of illiterate gaucherie. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero] Reference
Alone of all his lady acquaintances, Madame Steynlin liked him all the better for this gaucherie. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
There is a cynical doctrine that most men would rather be accused of wickedness than of gaucherie. From Wordnik.com. [Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society] Reference
But I had gone too far; his mother was shocked by my gaucherie, and he was humiliated and justly exasperated. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901] Reference
The gaucherie of that "still" struck upon Mark's artistic sensibilities, trained in Italian habits of speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
There was a shyness full of charm, a graceful gaucherie delightful to watch as the gambolings of young animals. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
The only real shadow of early shyness is the quite disproportionate amount of unhappiness that conscious gaucherie brings with it. From Wordnik.com. [At Large] Reference
Cope announced, with a breathless particularity not altogether disassociated from self-conscious gaucherie, that he should be unable to go. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
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