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

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

While the typical person observes Harris’ effervescent guffaw, and thinks, “She seems fun!”

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024

Farther on, standing before “Pay Nothing Until April,” an exceptional 2003 painting that I hadn’t seen before, I let out an involuntary guffaw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

For what Tree-ear guessed was the first time in Min’s whole life, the potter threw back his head in a loud guffaw of laughter.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

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

“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

I lost track of how many times I guffawed during the first two episodes, which also made me tear up quite a bit.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021

A few adults who had gathered to watch the fun, guffawed.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

From beneath his silver helmet, Martin was guffawing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

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

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

They spilled the contents right at our door and left, guffawing like madmen.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane