guffaw

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

"If I make you my cornbread, you'll marry me," he declares with a resounding guffaw.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022

Mr. Clifton just laughed at that, a real guffaw.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

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

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 yells, plots, spills coffee, turns dad jokes into gut-punch guffaws, and makes the entire auditorium fold itself into a ball, shaking with laughter as much as they shake with anxiety.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

The lawyer’s sally induced guffaws, a courtroom flare-up that Judge Tate’s dour gaze soon extinguished.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

And Kimmel guffawed at Fox’s attempts to spin the settlement in its favor, including a network statement that insisted it “reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

She hummed; she gurgled; she babbled; she screeched; she guffawed; she snorted; she yelled.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

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

Many sought the community that came from marching together or sharing the party’s lager or guffawing at the same political cartoons.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

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

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane