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solecismo
Catalan
solecisme
A socially awkward or tactless act.
slip
gaffe
solecism
faux pas
Portuguese
solecismo
Catalan
rusticitat
The quality of being rustic or gauche.
rusticity
urbanity
Catalan
rusticitat
Synonyms
Examples for "
slip
"
slip
gaffe
solecism
faux pas
Examples for "
slip
"
1
A year ago, however, that name started to
slip
away from her.
2
Nikki almost let
slip
the truth and said, For the moral support.
3
He asked her to write her question on a
slip
of paper.
4
Well I hope they choose to let
slip
a little more today.
5
Think I'll just
slip
in there and tell Marion the good news.
1
Sunday's text message error was the latest
gaffe
by the immigration minister.
2
The
gaffe
caused a six-day delay in election results, but wasn't insurmountable.
3
Google leaders have acknowledged that was an embarrassing
gaffe
for the company.
4
The slightest
gaffe
was met with widespread derision and insistence of incompetence.
5
When I lived in London he was known as the
gaffe
man!
1
A dead State is a
solecism
,
a contradiction in terms, an impossibility.
2
What is a suspension of existence, but a temporary annihilation!-
A
complete
solecism
!
3
Equite cannot exist without justice; society without justice is a
solecism
.
4
A Methodist pastor is a
solecism
;
Methodism is a moving evangelism.
5
Not to have seen Chaumont in Totot chez Tata was held a
solecism
.
1
Cons On popular routes, fixing lines can be a serious
faux
pas
.
2
OUTsurance's
faux
pas
quickly went viral, prompting a response by the insurer.
3
This is considered a major netiquette
faux
pas
in the Usenet world.
4
A round up of this week's political
faux
pas
with Rob Hosking.
5
By the merest accident I have already committed a hideous
faux
pas
.
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.
gaucherie
conscious gaucherie
such gaucherie
gaucherie matter
graceful gaucherie
imitate the gaucherie
Portuguese
solecismo
gafe
Catalan
solecisme
rusticitat