Synonyms for gauche
goʊʃgauche

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1. gaucheadjective

   Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.

   Synonyms:
   graceless, gawky, unpolished, unsophisticated, tactless

   Antonyms:
   adroit

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1. gauche, graceless, unpolishedadjective

   lacking social polish

   "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

   Synonyms:
   graceless, unpleasing, unpolished, ungraceful

   Antonyms:
   elegant

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1. List of paraphrases for "gauche":

   left, left-hand

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1. James Dean:

   I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don’t see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn’t tolerate myself.

2. Jean Iris Murdoch:

   A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.