gauche
adjective
[ ɡəʊʃ ]
• unsophisticated and socially awkward.
• "a shy and gauche teenager"
Similar:
awkward,
gawky,
inelegant,
graceless,
ungraceful,
ungainly,
bumbling,
maladroit,
inept,
socially awkward,
socially inept,
lacking in social grace(s),
unpolished,
unsophisticated,
uncultured,
uncultivated,
unrefined,
raw,
inexperienced,
uneducated,
unworldly,
Origin:
mid 18th century: French, literally ‘left’.
