How to Use gauche in a Sentence

gauche

adjective
  • Would it be gauche of me to ask her how old she is?
  • Maybe French tips aren't gauche for the Met Gala, after all.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 8 June 2018
  • This eerie display of the male gaze was gauche and left me feeling sticky.
    — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Lighting up a big smelly joint may, let’s hope, come to be seen as simply gauche.
    — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
  • All the talk of panties was too titillating, too gauche.
    — oregonlive.com, 28 June 2019
  • Think the bigger the better, and with tinted lenses in bright, gauche colors.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2019
  • That may sound like a gauche question, dishonoring the dead.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
  • Even so, apart from Mr. Ball’s gauche self-branding, there were few ripples Thursday night.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 23 June 2017
  • Having people over to sell them stuff is kind of gauche, at least among twenty- and thirtysomethings in Brooklyn.
    — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 26 Mar. 2018
  • In a town like New Canaan, where the median house price is above $1.5 million, the signs were seen by some as a gauche form of desperation.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 18 June 2018
  • The idea that the left has enemies who must be roundly defeated remains too gauche for many Democrats.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche.
    — Ask Amy, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Dear Looking: Greeting your host with your Gladware out and at the ready is definitely gauche.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The first scene has Tirzah limply sliding out onstage, crying, after the rape, then promptly sliding back off in a gauche display.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The painting has none of the gauche and gritty credibility of the Degas hanging beside it.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • At the price point of this restaurant, where fish entrees start at $39, are customers really going to want to see something so gauche as dead fish in the dining room?
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Even by those standards, his latest scheme is remarkably gauche.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Not since Jack Nicklaus ambled down the fairway in plaid Sansabelt trousers has golf wear looked this wonderfully gauche.
    — Steven Kurutz, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Not long after the app first launched, simply running photos of the site of a tragedy through Instagram’s default filtering tools was seen as gauche.
    — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 12 June 2019
  • Dreher does not claim to be anything so gauche as a segregationist or a neo-Confederate.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The accompanying photo shoot is filled with gauche images of Trump and first wife Ivana Trump in their former Connecticut mansion.
    — refinery29.com, 4 June 2018
  • Today, the Old Navy aesthetic is just as dominant in middlebrow fashion: Wearing a $9 T-shirt with a designer bag is seen as savvy, not gauche.
    — Fortune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Pippa was embarrassed by these gauche and faintly theatrical eruptions of veiled feminist protest, coming so much too late.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Fixating on other people's business is never a cute look, Capricorn, and it’s especially gauche when you get caught doing it.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Talking about profit when these companies are growing so quickly may seem gauche to some investors, but there’s a lot of venture capital money riding on the answers to these questions.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2019

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