Sentence examples for was gauche from inspiring English sources
adjective
Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
"He was gauche and inaccurate, but terribly persistent".
But Will can be endearing, just as Eggers was: gauche, funny, feckless, smart, vulnerable and quietly tortured.
The state's tourism trade has been battered by the recession, the discontinuation of flights by two beleaguered airlines and a somewhat vague sense that luxury travel — for business or pleasure — was gauche in a time of national economic pain.
When a critic pops up to say that it doesn't that too many notes were sour, or the palette was gauche, or the subtext pretentious, or the form too familiar well, that's humiliation on top of insult.
This last judgment, even allowing for Mr Summers's protestations about his lack of expertise, was gauche: after all, in his day job the provocateur has to help decide whom the faculty should hire, and the number of female scientists has gone down.
Guivarc'h was gauche at times, but that did not especially matter in the context of his position, and his coach Aimé Jacquet – who, let's be honest here, knows more about football than us – remains incredulous that he is perceived as a flop in that tournament.
The structure of adsorbed hydrazine was gauche-conformation.
If it were gauche to accept, it would be gauche of them to offer.
His academic drawings from the time are gauche and ordinary.
