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Meanings of gaucherie in English
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rusticitat Synonyms
Examples for "rusticity"
Examples for "rusticity"
1
Simple rusticity and ignorance are the chief characteristics of the country people.
2
I am vexed beyond measure that he should have seen such rusticity.
3
It equally reprobates an ungainly rusticity, and a mincing, tripping, over-soft manner.
4
And the boys-how would they accept this rusticity and probably self conceit?
5
We look for rusticity in the village, and for elegance in the park.
Usage of gaucherie in English
1
That good Chinfeather has not quite eradicated our gaucherie, it seems.
2
She was as broad as sumptuous in her nature; so what did a gaucherie matter?
3
I was about to commit the incredible gaucherie of saying I was glad you'd come along.
4
She could not resist the delicate malice of the exclamation, she imitated the gaucherie so delightfully.
5
Alone of all his lady acquaintances, Madame Steynlin liked him all the better for this gaucherie.
6
The tenderness that this gaucherie aroused in her made her the more merciless in her mockery!
7
There is a cynical doctrine that most men would rather be accused of wickedness than of gaucherie.
8
They all stared back at her, frowning slightly as diplomats will do when in the presence of gaucherie.
9
The gaucherie of that "still" struck upon Mark's artistic sensibilities, trained in Italian habits of speech.
10
Young Ocock's gaucherie had recalled the little maid Polly's ingenuous confusion, at finding herself the subject of conversation.
11
Every rash remark, every "break" in social form, every gaucherie was seized upon and ridiculed with-out mercy.
12
There was a shyness full of charm, a graceful gaucherie delightful to watch as the gambolings of young animals.
13
He laughed at my gaucherie.
14
Cope announced, with a breathless particularity not altogether disassociated from self-conscious gaucherie, that he should be unable to go.
15
The only real shadow of early shyness is the quite disproportionate amount of unhappiness that conscious gaucherie brings with it.
16
But I had gone too far; his mother was shocked by my gaucherie, and he was humiliated and justly exasperated.
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