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Gaucherie   Listen
noun
Gaucherie  n.  An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.






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"Gaucherie" Quotes from Famous Books



... they are not: because it is only the Balance which can keep you on the right path; strength without the beauty sense,—yes, even fortitude, strength of will,—turns at the touch of quickening time and new and vaster conditions, into gaucherie, disproportion, brutality; ay, it is not strength:—the saving quality of strength, morale, dribbles out and away from it: only the Balance is true strength. The empires that were founded upon uncompassion, through they swept the world ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

... La Gaucherie, one of the preceptors of Henry IV. having found that he had to do with a young prince of an impatient mind, and active genius, little suited to sedentary studies, instead of compelling his pupil to read, taught him by means of conversation: ...
— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth



Words linked to "Gaucherie" :   gaffe, botch, boner, stiffness, flub, solecism, pratfall, fuckup, clumsiness, gracelessness, faux pas, slip, bloomer, boo-boo, blunder, blooper



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