Gauche
Adjective.
1a: lacking social experience or grace; also not tactful: crude.
1b: crudely made or done.
2. not planar.
– gauchely adverb
– gaucheness noun
[Origin: French, literally, left]
(1751)
“I got out of my car, map of Glasgow in hand, and asked her for directions I did not need in an English I hoped was gauche and charming.” – Irene, Pierre Lemaitre.
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