gauche

Bargaining with the President would be gauche at the least.

It's all very gauche, as the French would say, but it will have to do.

Would it be gauche to ask when the fun starts?

She was much too sensitive a person, and that would have been gauche.

But here, where gender and class play a greater role in who does what, it is simply gauche.

"Rather gauche for the Peninsula at three in the afternoon."

I've never even thought about it being gauche or tacky.

Is that too gauche to contrast with winning in sports?

And, for the first time since the 50's, gauche painting became the rage.

It needed a kind of gauche innocence, which Michael was able to produce and project quite well.

On a personal level, though, Terry's enthusiasm was sometimes gauche.

Rachel had never in her life felt so gauche and awkward.

He forced himself to not appear too anxious or gauche.

"I am sure you would never do anything so gauche, my dear.

Do you mean that I have been gauche and rude?"

She felt awkward, even gauche, like some ignorant farm girl.

Left, in French, is gauche, which also means clumsy and awkward.

They probably figure it's gauche to actually go stab somebody."

She must keep them alphabetical, and not be so gauche as to repeat herself.

It was gauche, but I licked my lips and smiled.

Watch and Ward is only a particularly gauche example.

There are those who think that we shouldn't be communicating what we're doing because it's gauche.

She felt gauche and ridiculous all sprawled out on the grass.

He declined to comment on his salary, saying that would be "so gauche."

She genuinely does still have the slightly gauche charm of a much younger girl.