gaucherie

She accepted this without gaucherie, almost as a matter of course.

A lone primrose turned its flower away from this gaucherie.

Only Westerners would have the gaucherie to come -directly to the main business to be discussed.

Mostly, they flounder hopelessly about, getting the gaucherie but not the wit.

Embarrassed himself at his own gaucherie, Kirk swung on the crewman.

They all stared back at her, frowning slightly as diplomats will do when in the presence of gaucherie.

And it was only a certain gaucherie, a gawkiness on Anna's part that irritated her against the girl.

Sally is the personification of well-meaning American gaucherie in the postwar era.

"How gross," she pronounced, as if she were discussing someone else's gaucherie.

Then she blushed even hotter, realizing the gaucherie of comparing her own manners with his.

But was it a prime person sort of clumsiness, or a derivative kind of gaucherie?

Without the collaboration of a good director, though, her dramatic instincts can lead her into overstatement and gaucherie.

"No such gaucherie of dress was evident, Constable."

I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite.

Wrong lies in the opposite direction, in the gaucherie of displaying passionately held convictions.

What she gains in flesh she loses in gaucherie.

However, he was now so Arabic inhis ways that he could not bring himself to such gaucherie.

And he suffered from moral gaucherie also: he disapproved, he reproved.

Her aunt spluttered at such gaucherie.

I've seen the embarrassment, the gaucherie, the stiltedness at social gatherings, and the valiant attempts to bridge the two levels.

Reporters were duly mortified by such gaucherie and asked Reagan if he wouldn't like to clarify his remarks.

She wasn't sure whether he was dismayed at her gaucherie or just trying not to laugh, but she suspected the latter.

The old Gowachin scowled at this gaucherie, then chuckled.

His gaucherie warmed her towards him.

That looks incompatible with gaucherie, and perhaps is, but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives.