How to use "gauche" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "gauche" in popular movie and book plots

  • Initially disgusted, the soldier slowly builds up a comradeship with the gauche lad but one day they are recaptured.  - Black Field (2009 Greek film)
  • This case, however, exposes him to unwanted fame, which is extremely gauche in polite Oubliette society, where even people who share a flat remain discreetly behind a cloud of gevulot to avoid the faux pas of violating each other's privacy.  - The Quantum Thief
  • The first to join the act is gauche and lonely Malcolm, a security guard at the steel mill where Dave and Jerry once worked.  - The Full Monty (musical)
  • Far from being staffed by the 300 crew he expects, he is horrified to find the site is actually manned only by the eccentric, obtuse and war-ready Wing-Commander Campbell-Stokes and his gauche junior Airman Tench.  - All Along the Watchtower (TV series)
  • Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot follows the generally harmless misadventures of a lovable, gauche Frenchman, Monsieur Hulot (played by Tati himself), as he joins the "newly emerging holiday-taking classes" for a summer vacation at a modest seaside resort.  - Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
  • Miles makes a gauche pass at Maya, which she rejects.  - Sideways
  • In his attempt to be awarded tenure, he tries to maintain a good relationship with his head of department, Professor Welch who is an absent-minded and gauche pedant.  - Lucky Jim
  • Nancy finds the Aborns gauche but friendly.  - The Bungalow Mystery

Example sentences for "gauche" in interesting articles

  • Saying “maniacally focused” at all is out of place and gauche in an earnings call.  - Apple is losing the war of words
  • “One is greed and another powerful one is fear.” Outright greed is gauche in the Googleplex, so Gundotra prepared a slide deck that mocked up challenges from Google’s competitors (notably, Facebook), illustrating how each company could turn Google upside down.  - Inside Google+: How The Search Giant Plans To Go Social

Meaning of "gauche" in English

  • lacking social polish
    Example
    - their excellent manners always made me feel gauche

Meaning of "gauche" in Hindi

  • भद्दा
  • फूहड
  • फूहड़
  • बयँहत्था

Synonyms of "gauche"

  • unpolished
  • graceless

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