How to Use gauche in a Sentence

gauche

adjective

• Would it be gauche of me to ask her how old she is?
• 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.
  — Ask Amy, oregonlive, 27 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
• Number disclosure is considered as gauche as bragging about your massive pay increase for doing the exact same job as your coworker.
  — Sloane Crosley, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• Sontag is the gauche one here, seeing other people only in relation to herself, without any sense of their separate existence.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• The public is starting to turn against its influencer and celebrity populations and their gauche displays, with a few calling for their execution by guillotine.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 23 Apr. 2020
• Members of his Cabinet, by contrast, seem like gauche arrivistes, riding their boss’s coattails at great taxpayer expense.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
• Celebrities are brilliantly monetizing a new technological practice that a mere decade or two ago would have been regarded as gauche and narcissistic.
  — Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2016
• At one time, blatant commercialism by fine artists was considered gauche (Murakami included a Vuitton gift shop in the middle of a 2007 exhibition in Los Angeles; some reviewers clasped their pearls in horror.).
  — Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 8 June 2018
• Or—my personal favorite—Matthew Macfadyen as Shiv‘s arriviste, excruciatingly gauche boyfriend, Tom.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 June 2018

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