Gaucheness

I think Andrew Collins suffers from a kind of gaucheness that some find annoying. ❋ Colin H (2009)

There was none of the gaucheness that a stereotype of the scholar might throw up. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ferguson has to see Rio Ferdinand as more of a squad player and Phil Jones, despite all the interest taken in him, is a youngster still to learn the trade of centre-half, which is why Ferguson is inclined to play safe and put him elsewhere in the lineup so that any gaucheness or mistakes are more likely to be covered by team-mates. ❋ Unknown (2011)

That gaucheness, he believed, set the establishment against him and, though Waters explains that Trueman shared the blame for his outlaw image, one cannot help wonder how he might have flourished had he been given the sympathetic treatment at last afforded him by his club when the unsung Ronnie Burnet became captain in 1958. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What makes the Jack Flash sequences arguably escapist is not just their gaucheness but the vicarious thrill of his anti-establishment rebellion. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

"The gaucheness with which both Facebookand now Google Buzz have gone about such a noble, selfless pursuit of their future is quite staggering." ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when it comes down to it, the charge of gaucheness may be an aesthetic rather than moral judgement, and founded on a fairly accurate assessment of bad craft -- that a grandiose register is not just gratuitous, but is in fact counter-productive, harmful to the work. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

The charge of gaucheness can, of course, be dismissed as missing the point in fiction where this is a crucial feature of the narrative voice, where the elevated register is an intentional technique for representing character. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

The bravado of her entry had gone, replaced suddenly by the gaucheness of a nineteen-year-old who wished she was a child again and could be reassured by an adult that there were no ghosts or ghoulies lurking in the shadows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More charitable souls than me will find this gaucheness endearing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dust off the Laura Ingraham "shut up and sing" injunction, and wield it against singer Annie Lennox, who had the gaucheness to decry the carnage being carried out by the Israeli military against the citizens of Gaza. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

While you are being snooty about Ming's media gaucheness, thanks for IDS and Dracula in recent times. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If so, her gaucheness almost made him change his mind. ❋ Jordan, Penny (2006)

And for that reason, in spite of his gaucheness (in her eyes) she was inclined to tolerate him — to see how he would do. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They had a certain gaucheness about them that their neighbors found offputting. ❋ Ann Rule (2000)

[Man], [you are] so gauche. You [ain't got no] learnin'. ❋ Jerdawg (2005)

[God Damn] tert-butal substiuents; these molecules are [gauching] so hard. [Bros] gauching... Are you gauching? ❋ 1-3 Diaxial Interactions (2023)

[sean], [you are] incredibly gauche. ❋ Weinardy (2011)

that house looks very [expensive], but is very [tacky]. as if 2 [million] buys you class. how gauche. ❋ Ruprectjameson (2006)

[Cell phone] interruption and [etiquette] is gauche. ❋ Plantmilkweedseeds (2008)

That [gauche] girl, [Sophie], was so [freakin] annoying at school, she just sits alone and won't talk to anyone. ❋ Sophie Grafeee (2010)

Some may say that after Chris Evans has had his fill of [he-nut butter] he likes to amuse his corgi by [plaiting] its [gauche] ❋ Jonny And Pete And Liam Girth (2008)

I didn't know she was there, and [I came] out in my gauch. Im [all out] of [clean] gauch! ❋ Lar3ry (2006)

That [ese] has a [gauche] [belt] on. ❋ Augie-Sue (2017)

[Carrie] really wants [James's] [gauche]. Oh my God, Becky, look at his gauche. I like it when guys trim their gauche hair. ❋ Jackson Montreal (2008)