How to Use guff in a Sentence

guff

noun

• His friends have given him a lot of guff about his hair.
• She doesn't take guff from anybody.
• His latest book has a lot of guff about conspiracies of one kind or another.
• Lolo, who takes no guff, even as a small child, pops him right in the nose.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2023
• Who gives you more guff for still being single, your mother or your sister?
  — Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2017
• Given him a lot of guff for his work over the years, but this was one of bill Mason’s ideas.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
• Bailey has a reputation as someone who doesn’t take a lot of guff.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2019
• But this year, the city is catching a little guff over an apparent oversight.
  — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
• Oil is not a hazardous material, but some post offices might give you guff about sending it.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2020
• But may god forgive the literary critic who swallows the guff of Twenge and her ilk.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 11 Aug. 2017
• Lopez knocks a bag out of Parker's hand and lunges at him, because RoLo takes no guff from furballs.
  — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Father and son embraced, and Mike gave his dad some guff about not shaving, rubbing his knuckles against his dad’s white stubble.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
• Don Shula is spinning in his grave; that or enduring a lot of guff from old football colleagues up in heaven.
  — Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
• Perform mindless, pointless and degrading tasks all day while taking guff from perfect strangers and feckless idiots.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• Darkest Dungeon gets plenty of (somewhat deserved) guff for overtaxing its same few areas to support a very long game.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 28 June 2017
• This book exists, in other words, in order for Karp to have written a book … The book is filled with this sort of sanctimonious guff.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
• The others show similar qualities by not getting in trouble, getting straight A’s, and not taking any guff from males.
  — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
• Nero Wolfe may have had Archie Goodwin to do the legwork and take his guff, but Johansson has his own minions.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 7 June 2017
• Months after smart, take-no-guff Rose Ito, 23, arrives in Chicago, she is run over by a subway train and dies.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2021
• His wife, Hilary, had (quite reasonably) been giving him guff about that matter and finally had prevailed upon him to get some new ones.
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 19 May 2018
• Earlier this month, the New York Times published an article on tipping, and the guff and garbage servers put up with in order to get their tips.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The Golden Globes rightfully takes a lot of guff for being so starstruck and so susceptible to fancy campaign tactics.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• There's been an absolute guff load of transfer rumours doing the rounds recently, and a large chunk of them seem to be about two blossoming West Ham stars.
  — SI.com, 20 June 2019
• Musgraves abided no guff, especially from folks who advised her against speaking her mind counter to the more rigid, traditional country music worldview.
  — Allison Glock, Marie Claire, 11 Sep. 2019
• Wyck is obviously Widow’s Bay’s Quint, the veteran sea salt who takes no guff, drinks too much, and selflessly puts his life on the line.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026
• Eventually, Bombay even begins to thaw on the personal side, sympathizing with his team's gutty, take-no-guff swagger.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2017
• No longer was the genre considered all-singing, all-dancing guff beloved by American philistines, but something of emotional and intellectual merit.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2023
• Advertisers getting major guff from their customers don’t want to continue to take a hailstorm of criticism from those who don’t like anything but total loyalty toward the flag.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• Her performance as Emma Tate nails that Mary Poppins blend of dainty and feisty, serving as a comforting presence that also takes no guff.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• Notwithstanding the guff, the commercial potential is indeed significant—as are the potential problems.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2019