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What does gauche mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gauche? Here's what it means.

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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It's a shame that this album highlight is immediately followed by a song so embarrassingly gauche.
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.
Now while that celebration was deserved, if a little gauche and overly triumphal, the reasons for it must be analysed.
I anticipated someone overtly bookish, withdrawn or slightly gauche, and whose idea of fun was deciphering crossword puzzles.
It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing.
When did our leaders become so gauche, impolite, rude and downright insensitive?

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