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Another word for gauche

gauche Synonyms

gauche

modif.

uncouth, clumsy, inept, tactless; see awkward 1.

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Another word for gauche

adjective

Lacking sensitivity and skill in dealing with others:
brash, clumsy, impolitic, indelicate, maladroit, tactless, undiplomatic, unpolitic, untactful. See ability, courtesy
Clumsily lacking in the ability to do or perform:
awkward, bumbling, clumsy, heavy-handed, inept, maladroit, unskillful. See ability

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So how do you let guests know where you registered without seeming gauche?
While it's appropriate to use it in Québec, if you're visiting Haiti, Belgium or parts of Africa that still speak French, they'll find your response très gauche, (very crude) as will people in France.
It would be slightly gauche to arrive at a wake with an infant clad in a ruffled cupcake pink dress.
Vers la gauche. . .that means on the left.

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