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Gauche vs Crass - What's the difference?

gauche | crass |

As adjectives the difference between gauche and crass

is that gauche is awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling while crass is coarse; crude; not refined or sensible.

gauche

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
  • *19th century , (1793-1860), The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence :
  • *:Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display
  • *:In 'good society', to make her way
  • * 1879 , George Meredith, The Egoist ,
    • She looked a trifle gauche , it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.
  • *1895 , H.G. Wells, The Wonderful Visit , :
  • *:"He's a trifle gauche'" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less ' gauche ."
  • (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
  • (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°

    • Synonyms

    * (lacking in social graces) graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky

    Antonyms

    * (lacking in social graces) adroit

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    crass

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • coarse; crude; not refined or sensible
  • * 2002 , ,
    • You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass , a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person. [...]
  • materialistic
  • dense

    • Antonyms

    * delicate, sensible, refined

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