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Meanings of gaucheness in English

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An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement.

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Examples for "crudity"
Examples for "crudity"
1
Such views belong to the uneducated crudity and superficiality of naïve thinking.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
2
Of course, such a sketch must have an inevitable crudity of effect.
A Modern Utopia
3
And yet at moments no one blurts things out with such crudity.
Washington Square
4
Or they will rebel, reaching out in exaggerated behavior and macho crudity.
The Disposable Male
5
He is forced to listen, perhaps, to an exhibition of tedious crudity.
The Young Priest's Keepsake
1
Sometimes a great deal of crudeness is expressed with a certain subtlety.
The God That Failed
2
It seemed hysterical and overwrought in places-itgives the effect of crudeness.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
3
It belongs to the crudeness, and ignorance, and superstition of barbaric times.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
4
The crudeness of some epitaphs gives them a grotesque touch of realism.
The Story of Cooperstown
5
It smacked of crudeness, and he had an epicurean distaste for crudeness.
The Purple Heights
Usage of gaucheness in English
1
There is something particularly obnoxious about the latest revelation of gaucheness in high places.
The Irish Times
2
While his political essays tend to gaucheness, his travel accounts provide many amusing moments.
The Guardian
3
The goal itself had, after all, revealed gaucheness in City.
The Guardian
4
If anything, it is only Rodgers' old lyrics that betray the gaucheness of youth.
Radio NZ
5
His gaucheness is sometimes endearing, and sometimes close to rude.
The Guardian
6
The gaucheness, as in karaoke, is a mysterious incarnation of democracy and form of empowerment.
The Guardian
7
His gaucheness was real enough -still is, on occasion -and needed sympathetic management.
The Guardian
8
And Miss Abbott-she, too, was beautiful in her way, for all her gaucheness and conventionality.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
9
It matches up human traits that are contradictory - brilliance and bluster; gravity and gaucheness; class and crass.
The Irish Times
10
Von Holzen was betrayed into a momentary gaucheness, as if he were not quite at home in a drawing-room.
Roden's Corner
11
In many ways social gifting shrouds purchasing in a cloak of generosity, since the social streaming context removes the gaucheness of sharing these gifts.
Wired
12
Gaucheness permeates Preacher, though any character who used the word "gauche" would almost certainly be gang-raped by mutant rednecks as a joke.
Wired
13
There is something particularly obnoxious about the latest revelation of gaucheness in high places.
The Irish Times
14
While his political essays tend to gaucheness, his travel accounts provide many amusing moments.
The Guardian
15
The goal itself had, after all, revealed gaucheness in City.
The Guardian
16
If anything, it is only Rodgers' old lyrics that betray the gaucheness of youth.
Radio NZ
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Gaucheness through the time