gaffe

“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” was her tinny response, and that gaffe is entirely on the former vice president.

Diplomats, whose cause Andrew was meant to be advancing, nicknamed him "His Buffoon Highness" because of all the gaffes.

In fact, they're all so discombobulated by this thing that some of them are making monumental political gaffes trying to deal with it.

These "gaffes" were considered deal breakers and no matter how hard they tried to show off their skills at mingling with ordinary voters, they were given no quarter.

It caused a bit of a fuss back home, but it was not an off the cuff gaffe.