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

“You know that laugh,” he said of his wife’s great, gusting guffaw, which critics have sought to weaponize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

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

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

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

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

Between guffaws and gasps we moaned and clutched our stomachs.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

The Internet guffawed; his Browns record was 3-36-1 from 2016 to 2018, the lowest winning percentage for any coach with one team in 40 or more games.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2019

She stumbled on the steps and all the girls snickered and the boys 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

The film, directed by Neil Berkeley, shows him puttering around his house, playing with his children and guffawing at his wife’s jokes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 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

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

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