goof

I think pretty early on, we were like, “Let’s goof on Alex for a little while in this conspiracy world.”

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

“It’s a thing about my personality to be silly and goof around.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

I asked Clark if he was worried that a 58-year-old player would be a distraction to the program, or seen as a goof.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

"This is reputation management of the highest order," he wrote, criticising the "softest editing" which painted Sir Jacob wrongly as a "harmless gosh-and-golly goof".

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024

Part of me always believed that this whole bar mitzvah thing was kind of a goof for him.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Airline fare goofs are rare—Thrifty Traveler has sent 20 mistake fare alerts since 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

That may make it easier to get correct answers, but also can make the stakes higher if the AI goofs and makes a user uncomfortable or botches financial data.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

Sometimes, if people don’t understand what you’re doing, it is not because they are goofs but because you haven’t done your job as a satirist correctly.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

All the while, Ladybug flirts and goofs and munches, alternating lamentations about his bad luck and therapy-gleaned platitudes that sound like something a school principal might deploy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2022

“I heard you. Maybe I’m too old to get mad, or maybe what you consider goofs aren’t what / consider goofs—it’s just stuff that happens.”

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

Colbert often goofed on his public image with mock outrage over perceived offenses, a carry-over from his long-running shtick on “The Colbert Report.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

The brothers had long goofed around playing football in the backyard, even devising creative games while bouncing on the trampoline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

Washington, Seattle, is that the same thing?” goofed the geographically confused star.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

"Ecowas goofed, the Nigerian president also goofed," said Prof Khalifa Dikwa, an academic at the University of Maiduguri and a member of an influential group of elders in northern Nigeria.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

Right off, I wanted to say I was sorry for the way the election thing had been all goofed up, but that there was always next time.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

That’s important only because “Wrong Girls” has the pinpoint silliness of soulmates who spend a lot of time goofing around at home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Geisel lasted less than a year in Oxford, but Jones says "once he's hooked up with Helen" he spent his time "travelling, goofing off and kind of really doing anything but his studies".

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Eileen Shiffrin, Mikaela’s mother and original skiing Obi-Wan, says she knows it’s going to be a good day when her daughter is goofing off and chatty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Older kids and adults — even those who aren't furries — also love some animal-themed goofing off: Consider the mascots associated wity many college sports teams.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

I began by pulling off a picture of Radar and Ben and me goofing off.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green