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GAUCHE
gauche, graceless, unpolished
(adjective) lacking social polish; “too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate”; “their excellent manners always made me feel gauche”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
gauche (comparative more gauche, superlative most gauche)
Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
(mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
Synonyms
• (lacking in social graces): graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky
Antonyms
• (lacking in social graces): adroit
Anagrams
• guache
Source: Wiktionary
Gauche, n. Etym: [F.]
1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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