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

Grant’s commitment to his dastardly rogue barely goes beyond his cravat — he’d rather guffaw than feign gravitas.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

It was scarcely distinguishable from his guffaw, but there was a difference.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The name Hank McCune may be lost to history, but his short-lived television sitcom will forever be remembered for its chuckles, chortles, giggles and guffaws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

But when Amy Madigan’s deliciously wicked villain, Aunt Gladys, finally appeared in her blunt wig with lipstick smeared all over her teeth, even I couldn’t resist offering up some guffaws of my own.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 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

Thor’s booming guffaws, each louder than a thunderclap, mingled with Odin’s dry laughter, with Balder’s bell-like laughter...

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

Dear Amy: I guffawed when I saw a reference in your column to the parenting torture that is the game “Candyland.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2023

He chuckled along when they called him “Dr. No” and guffawed when one cast member, Tim Kazurinsky, took to interrupting skits as the prudish censor “Worthington Clotman.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

Bien, Generose, and Ive guffawed along with Alex.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

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

If you are then brave enough to tender an invitation, the entity will obligingly possess you while your guffawing friends, smartphones at the ready, gleefully capture its disturbing, sometimes embarrassing behavior.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

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 couldn’t bear to have yet an­other French speaker guffawing at my name, so when the man on the phone asked, “Can I ’ave your name?”

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel