gauche

gauche
    adj 1: lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when
           the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent
           manners always made me feel gauche" [syn: {gauche},
           {graceless}, {unpolished}]
    

Gauche \Gauche\ (g[=o]sh), n. [F.]
   1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and
      surfaces.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations;
      crude; tactless; socially inept.

   Syn: graceless; unsophisticated.
        [PJC]

   4. (Chem.) Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular
      conformations.
      [PJC]
    

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "gauche":
      all thumbs, awkward, blankminded, blunderheaded, blundering,
      boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, callow, careless,
      clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, crude, cumbersome, dumb, empty,
      empty-headed, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gawkish, gawky,
      graceless, green, groping, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed,
      heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ignorant, inane, inelegant, inept,
      inexperienced, innocent, know-nothing, left-hand, left-handed,
      loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, naive, nescient,
      oafish, ponderous, raw, simple, sloppy, stiff, strange to,
      tentative, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant,
      uncouth, unenlightened, unfamiliar, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy,
      unhappy, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent,
      unknowing, unpolished, unposted, unripe, unsure, unversed,
      unwieldy, vacuous, wooden