goof

Example Sentences

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Claiming afterward that she had only been thinking before speaking made the original goof worse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

"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

But, you know, we're out to have fun and we're out to goof around.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024

Later he anchored a bit that found the show’s correspondents Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta and Dulce Sloan reporting from the same diner, a goof on the campaign coverage trope.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2024

“Yes, ma’am. Got promoted last week. They messed up, letting me and Marlon goof off out here.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas