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gaff

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of gaff

1 a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark

  • you can expect to make some amusing gaffs until you get more familiar with the language
Synonyms of gaff

familiarity, faux pas, gaffe, impropriety, indiscretion, solecism
Words Related to gaff

blunder, error, flub, fumble, goof, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble

discourtesy, incivility, offense (or offence)

boner, howler

foul-up, muff

misapprehension, miscalculation, misconception, misjudgment, misstatement, misunderstanding
Near Antonyms of gaff

form, manners, mores, proprieties
Antonyms of gaff

amenity, attention, civility, courtesy, formality, gesture, pleasantry

2 an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy

  • double-check the new writer's grammar, as it's typically riddled with gaffs
Synonyms of gaff

blunder, bobble, boo-boo, boob [British], brick, clanger [British], clinker, error, fault, flub, fluff, fumble, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup, stumble, trip
Words Related to gaff

bloomer, blooper, boner, howler, pratfall

foul-up, snafu

misapprehension, miscalculation, miscomprehension, misconception, misconstruction, miscue, misdescription, misimpression, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misstatement, misunderstanding
Near Antonyms of gaff

accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, strictness

inerrancy, infallibility, perfection

gaff

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of gaff

1 to cause to believe what is untrue

  • a sleazy schemer who gaffed gullible people into thinking they could get rich with a money-making opportunity
Synonyms of gaff

bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick
Words Related to gaff

kid, put on, tease

bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle
Phrases Synonymous with gaff

do a number on, lead one down the garden path (also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes
Near Antonyms of gaff

debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask

disclose, divulge, tell, unveil

disabuse, disenchant, disillusion
Antonyms of gaff

undeceive

2 to rob by the use of trickery or threats

  • the operators of the traveling carnival had gaffed patrons with a variety of time-honored ruses
Synonyms of gaff

beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
Words Related to gaff

extort, wrench, wrest, wring

clip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soak

exploit, milk

deceive, dupe, fool, gull, trick

rope (in)

betray, bitch, double-cross

bamboozle, fast-talk
Phrases Synonymous with gaff

sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners

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