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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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Now while that celebration was deserved, if a little gauche and overly triumphal, the reasons for it must be analysed.
He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness.
It was all very serious, with a constant fear of getting some nuance wrong, of revealing the gauche suburban soul beneath the fishnet tights.
When did our leaders become so gauche, impolite, rude and downright insensitive?
His words for modern luxury would have included gauche, vulgar, nouveau, tasteless, and, most interestingly, offensive.
Well, that may have at one time been the case, back before it became gauche, but let me assure you, that is most definitely NOT the case anymore.

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