gauche Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lacking social polish
    unpolished; graceless.
    • too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate
    • their excellent manners always made me feel gauche

WordNet


Gauche noun
Etymology
F.
Definitions
  1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
  2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

Webster 1913