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Antonyms for gauche

Grammar : Adj
Spell : gohsh
Phonetic Transcription : goʊʃ


Definition of gauche

Origin :
  • "awkward, tactless," 1751 (Chesterfield), from French gauche "left" (15c., replacing Old French senestre in that sense), originally "awkward, awry," from Middle French gauchir "turn aside, swerve," from Old French gaucher "trample, reel, walk clumsily," from Frankish *welkan "to full" (cloth), from Proto-Germanic *wankjan (cf. Old High German wankon, Old Norse vakka "to stagger, totter;" see wink (v.)).
  • adj tactless, unsophisticated
Example sentences :
  • He came forward with a gauche gallantry, and offered his arm to Horatia.
  • Extract from : « Sarah's School Friend » by May Baldwin
  • The gauche boy gone from him, Milt took her hand, pressed it to his cheek.
  • Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis
  • If she were not so tall!how can one be anything but gauche with a figure like that?
  • Extract from : « The Garden of Swords » by Max Pemberton
  • There is, even, in the architecture of Winnipeg, a sort of gauche pride visible.
  • Extract from : « Letters from America » by Rupert Brooke
  • He felt awkward, gauche, tongue-tied, hot and cold by turns.
  • Extract from : « The Best Psychic Stories » by Various
  • "Au fond de la cour, troisieme a gauche," said the concierge.
  • Extract from : « Simon the Jester » by William J. Locke
  • It is not that gauche happenings are serious offenses, no matter how awkward the incident.
  • Extract from : « Etiquette » by Emily Post
  • How could he have been so gauche, so clumsy and unlike himself.
  • Extract from : « Beyond The Rocks » by Elinor Glyn
  • My eyes glanced around to see the effect produced on my friends by my gauche cousin.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 » by Various
  • He was ashamed now when he recalled the gauche sense of superiority that had showed itself in bad manners.
  • Extract from : « The Narrow House » by Evelyn Scott

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