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What does gauche mean?

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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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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.
When did our leaders become so gauche, impolite, rude and downright insensitive?
He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness.
One example of the application of this technique is in the distinction of trans and gauche rotational isomers.
He must be unheroic and yet brave, gauche and yet practical, ill and yet strong.
Do you think this is a bit loud, you know, gauche, for someone in my condition?

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