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gaucherie
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Definition:1. (countable) A socially tactless or awkward act.2. (uncountable) Lack of tact; tactlessness; awkwardness.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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he had given his envelope to the Don personally, a gaucherie the Don overlooked in his own flowery sentence of thanks.
Mario Puzo. The Godfather, p.24 (1969)
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With her background and Boethian worldview, she would take a very stoic and fatalistic view of whatever sexual gaucheries and blunders he committed. She would be understanding.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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