guffaw
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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
"If I make you my cornbread, you'll marry me," he declares with a resounding guffaw.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022
He laughs at something Mrs. Pearl says, and people two streets over probably hear that guffaw of his.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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
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
Even those who experienced tribulations far worse than mine, cheered and guffawed with bottles of Champagne in hand, dressed in their most outrageous, albeit crusty, Burning Man finery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
“Vote for Bolsonaro?” guffawed Sabrina Campos Dionísio, 22.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2022
She moved forward stiffly, her gapped mouth open wide as she guffawed.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
We’ve reached a point where the guffawing has to stop.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
From beneath his silver helmet, Martin was guffawing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
Since 1970, Brown has been a near-constant presence in the halls of Jefferson’s Capitol — neck slung with cameras, Canon raised to his eye for a quick shot of lawmakers huddling, scratching, yawning, guffawing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022
I was just saying, how nature was amazing and then, unfortunately, the audience started guffawing.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2021
She moved so fast it was as though she had Disapparated; one moment she was there, the next, she had squeezed between two guffawing witches and vanished.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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