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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gauche \Gauche\ (g[=o]sh), n. [F.]
     1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and
        surfaces.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations;
        crude; tactless; socially inept.
  
     Syn: graceless; unsophisticated.
          [PJC]
  
     4. (Chem.) Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular
        conformations.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gauche
       adj : lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when
             the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent
             manners always may be feel gauche" [syn: {graceless}, {unpolished}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "gauche":
     all thumbs, awkward, blankminded, blunderheaded, blundering,
     boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, callow, careless,
     clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, crude, cumbersome, dumb, empty,
     empty-headed, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gawkish, gawky,
     graceless, green, groping, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed,
     heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ignorant, inane, inelegant, inept,
     inexperienced, innocent, know-nothing, left-hand, left-handed,
     loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, naive, nescient,
     oafish, ponderous, raw, simple, sloppy, stiff, strange to,
     tentative, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant,
     uncouth, unenlightened, unfamiliar, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy,
     unhappy, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent,
     unknowing, unpolished, unposted, unripe, unsure, unversed,
     unwieldy, vacuous, wooden
  
  

















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