guffaw

You can never quite relax, because you're always just waiting for the raise of the eyebrow, the suppressed guffaw, the uninvited joke, whatever.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

It’s typical of the home-state reporting corps to guffaw when their own governor is touted as a presidential candidate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025

But even now, the news will occasionally let you get off a chuckle or guffaw, even if it isn’t always from your better nature.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025

A full-body guffaw, followed by her pointing at the screen and saying, “I know exactly what he means.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Duck had a good guffaw when he emerged on deck again.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

And while much of the movie induces sidesplitting guffaws, Tremaine said that producer and co-creator Spike Jonze was eager to highlight the sensitive beats shared between the cast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

They realized that these comments got a rise out of the girls and drew guffaws from the other boys; Amanda saw them looking around the classroom for reactions after saying something particularly shocking.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2025

"Someone wrote their number on a tissue the other day and I was like, 'Oh no, you're just not my type'," she guffaws.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

He politely guffaws at the idea of a regular person like, say, this reporter, calling him for a consultation, but then hastily explains it’s because he really can’t take on any more clients.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

“You have leg pain?” he said, between guffaws.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

Still, I guffawed when Becket popped back into his present-day cell to poke fun at his audience, the Catholic priest: “The last thing the Church wanted was an investigation,” he says with a smirk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

It is no exaggeration to say I guffawed my way through it.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2023

At various points, others groaned and guffawed at Mr Gaetz's comments.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2023

“Just your name,” the girl replied, and Capaldi guffawed.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

As we shook hands he burst into a loud, seemingly causeless laugh; and as he guffawed I could not tell whether his mirth was directed at me or was meant to hide his uneasiness.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

As one guffawing TikToker put it, “Tim Burton was so tired of people saying that he don’t be putting Black people in his movies that he said, ‘Here!

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024

Laughter can be subversive, of course, and one of the great satisfactions of these films is watching so many women laugh — often guffawing, not tittering — through one predicament after another.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

Asked by Jost if his parents would be “upset” about his sexuality, Yang’s Oompa Loompa gave the guffawing audience some insight into his hometown of “Loompa Land,” which apparently is “not as progressive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2021

You can practically hear Prose guffawing over these excerpts; they provide a wonderful excuse for this superb stylist to dress up like a literary tramp.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2021

I can almost see Karly and Sal sitting there, guffawing as I speak.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler