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Gauche is an English word with synonyms like graceless or unpolished. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Gauche in a sentence

Related words

Gauche | Gaucher

Gauche meaning

  1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
  2. Skewed, not plane.
  3. Having a torsion angle of 60°.

Synonyms of Gauche

graceless unpolished inelegant

Related words

Other words often associated with Gauche or its synonyms:

unrefined elegant polished awkward tasteless homely rough ungraceful dull raw undignified ungracious

Using Gauche

  • The main meaning on this page is: Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes. | Skewed, not plane. | Having a torsion angle of 60°.
  • Useful related words include: graceless, unpolished, inelegant.
  • In the example corpus, gauche often appears in combinations such as: been gauche, gauche to.

Context around Gauche

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 12 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

considered 1× rive 1× look 1× term 1× din 1× gambit 1×

Often after:

bonanza 1× paris 1× attempts 1× quadrilateral 1× ikarus 1×

Sentence patterns with Gauche

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

been a gauche pr stunt 1× chicken gambit gauche ikarus larceny 1× is considered gauche to the 1× links din gauche if the 1× musical s gauche bonanza of 1× office is gauche even by 1× over his gauche attempts at 1× rive gauche and aftershock 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a home clubhouse 1× all watercolor or 1× attempting to ride 1× cool britannia may 1× essays should subtly 1× historically the term 1×

Common sentence endings:

a skew quadrilateral 1× alive back then 1× and south dakota 1× at political seduction 1× by australian standards 1× in early october 1×

Words around Gauche

Just before it in the word index:

gaubert 2 gaubatz 2 gauba 4 gauahar 9 gau 26 gatzke 3

Just after it in the word index:

gaucher 7 gaucho 13 gauchos 31 gauci 27 gauck 2 gauda 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 19 abbv 19 abdalla 19 abdirahman 19 abdulmalik 19 abhimanyu 19

Corpus analysis for Gauche

  • In this selection, "gauche" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, considered, rive, look, bonanza, paris and attempts stand out and add context to how "gauche" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include been a gauche pr stunt and chicken gambit gauche ikarus larceny. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "gauche" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with gauche

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Rive Gauche and AfterShock merged in early October. (8 words)

Essays should subtly highlight your outstanding qualities without bragging, which would be gauche. (13 words)

Historically the term gauche quadrilateral was also used to mean a skew quadrilateral. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

If anything, today’s M.L.S. fan groups emphasize a positivity that would look gauche to some of the groups they notionally emulate: charity fund-raisers, clothing drives and events supporting social issues from anti-racism initiatives to gay rights. (41 words)

Troy’s initial problem is that the gauche Paris/Alexander is difficult to root for and the dialogue is pedestrian, but the drama may gain pace and wit once the heavy exposition is out of the way. (37 words)

If the hinges are on the left, it's a DIN Left door (DIN links, DIN gauche), if the hinges are on the right, it's a DIN Right door (DIN rechts, DIN droite). (34 words)

Question examples

Was it preemptive self-defense against Broadway reviews like this one, that would apply aesthetic judgment to the musical’s gauche bonanza of too-muchness? (25 words)

Why does this overgrown public schoolboy expect us to simply swoon over his gauche attempts at political seduction? (18 words)

Example sentences (14)

All watercolor or gauche, the pieces were created by 49 artists from 28 Long Island communities, as well as the greater state of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, and South Dakota.

Cool Britannia may have been a gauche PR stunt, but it summed up the youthful optimism alive back then.

Essays should subtly highlight your outstanding qualities without bragging, which would be gauche.

Was it preemptive self-defense against Broadway reviews like this one, that would apply aesthetic judgment to the musical’s gauche bonanza of too-muchness?

Attempting to ride a pair of supermarket-bought Australian flag flip-flops into the prime minister’s office is gauche even by Australian standards.

A home clubhouse celebration scene at Yankee Stadium Wednesday night would’ve been gauche.

It is obvious that his form of political speech is considered gauche to the elite political media: They like to be misled by someone with couth and elegance, like President Barack Obama.

Rive Gauche and AfterShock merged in early October.

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If anything, today’s M.L.S. fan groups emphasize a positivity that would look gauche to some of the groups they notionally emulate: charity fund-raisers, clothing drives and events supporting social issues from anti-racism initiatives to gay rights.

Troy’s initial problem is that the gauche Paris/Alexander is difficult to root for and the dialogue is pedestrian, but the drama may gain pace and wit once the heavy exposition is out of the way.

Why does this overgrown public schoolboy expect us to simply swoon over his gauche attempts at political seduction?

Historically the term gauche quadrilateral was also used to mean a skew quadrilateral.

If the hinges are on the left, it's a DIN Left door (DIN links, DIN gauche), if the hinges are on the right, it's a DIN Right door (DIN rechts, DIN droite).

Several significant new implementations (Chicken, Gambit, Gauche, Ikarus, Larceny, Ypsilon) have been developed in the last few years.

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Common combinations with gauche

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "gauche" in a sentence?
An example: "All watercolor or gauche, the pieces were created by 49 artists from 28 Long Island communities, as well as the greater state of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, and South Dakota." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "gauche" from authentic English texts.
What does "gauche" mean?
Gauche means: Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
What are synonyms of "gauche"?
Common synonyms of "gauche" include: graceless, unpolished, inelegant.
How many example sentences with "gauche" are there?
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