Meaning & use
gauche
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Lacking social grace or tact; awkward or clumsy in social situations.
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It was considered gauche to discuss salaries at the dinner party.
His gauche remarks about her weight embarrassed everyone at the table.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French, where 'gauche' literally means 'left'; historically, left-handedness was unfairly associated with clumsiness or wrongness.
Words with a similar meaning
tactlessawkward
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Words with an opposite meaning
suavepolished
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