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What does gauche mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gauche? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
  2. (mathematics) Skewed, not plane.
  3. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
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It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing.
Do you think this is a bit loud, you know, gauche, for someone in my condition?
Now while that celebration was deserved, if a little gauche and overly triumphal, the reasons for it must be analysed.
His words for modern luxury would have included gauche, vulgar, nouveau, tasteless, and, most interestingly, offensive.
He must be unheroic and yet brave, gauche and yet practical, ill and yet strong.
It's a shame that this album highlight is immediately followed by a song so embarrassingly gauche.

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