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What does gauche mean?

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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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His words for modern luxury would have included gauche, vulgar, nouveau, tasteless, and, most interestingly, offensive.
It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing.
He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness.
When did our leaders become so gauche, impolite, rude and downright insensitive?
One example of the application of this technique is in the distinction of trans and gauche rotational isomers.
I anticipated someone overtly bookish, withdrawn or slightly gauche, and whose idea of fun was deciphering crossword puzzles.

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