gauche •\ˈgōsh\• adjective
: lacking social polish
The word gauche has appeared in 34 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 9 in the concert review “Bombastic, Boisterous and Triumphant,” by Jon Caramanica:
Lupe Fiasco’s third album, “Lasers,” came out on Tuesday, but on Monday night it wasn’t certain that he’d be in the mood to celebrate at his album-release concert at Webster Hall.
. . . He told the audience, with great pride, that the label “promised me they would not come into the studio” when he was recording his next album. (Cheers, of course.) And then he narrated, at some length, the whole arc of his career, leading up to the present moment onstage, right up to his final song. Yet even this hopelessly gauche move did little to dim his triumph: he’d gotten what he thought he wanted just in time to want something else altogether.
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