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Example sentences for: gauche

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He has erected, at enormous expense, a European-style capital city, Yamoussoukro, in the interior of the country, and furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City--all this supposedly to serve the spiritual needs of the country's francisized Catholics, who constitute no more than 12% of the country's 11 to 12 million people.
One creative sign: Daniel Ortega is identified by a tap on the wrist, a mockery of the ex-president's gauche Rolex.
Gauche, gauche, gauche, and tacky.
The Carré Rive Gauche, bounded by the quai Voltaire, the boulevard St-Germain, and the rues du Bac and des Sts-Pères, is something of a museum of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, pre-Columbian, African, and Polynesian art, as well as Louis XV, Second Empire, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.
Your take on his behavior was correct: It was gauche . Prudie does have one slight bit of curiosity about the faux pas.