gauche -- Gretchen

gauche (gsh) adj. Lacking social polish; tactless. [French, awkward, lefthanded, from Old French, from gauchir, to turn aside, walk clumsily, of Germanic origin.] gauchely adv. gaucheness n.

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When Gretchen wrote, "My mom made me write this" at the bottom of her thank you notes, it wasn’t gauche; it was funny.