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Recent Examples of goof Someone casually mentions Vegas, and one chartered flight later, the gang is running around Sin City and treating $20k losses at casinos like a goof. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024 This viral thermal brush has users swooning over its goof-proof, strand-straightening barrel, and fast results. Anamaria Glavan, Allure, 5 Oct. 2024 The Residence is an entertainingly chaotic goof, a dramedy that immediately sets a frantic tone that’s only occasionally varied in the seven episodes (out of eight total) sent to critics. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025 The laidback energy resonated throughout the entire night, which featured minor goofs from Timothée Chalamet and Jessica Williams along with comical bits reuniting cast members from our favorite shows of the past. Brendan Le, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for goof
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goof
Noun
  • Jamie Moraga, Franklin Revere NO: San Diego’s roads are in dire condition after years of deferred maintenance; drastically cutting the road-repair budget now would be a serious mistake.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • Treating it like a cause-and-effect explanation mistakes the scoreboard for the game.
    Alexander William Salter, National Review, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The show’s main blunder is that instead of unpacking the various angles of the mob bosses’ corruption, random side stories start popping up.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • But the internal investigation promised by department leaders — a probe of what accounted for the delays and blunders — seemed to go nowhere.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Garcia, who denies gang membership, had an immigration court order protecting him from deportation, which the administration acknowledged was an administrative error.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • Betts grounded into a fielder’s choice and reached via an error on a should-have-been 6-3 putout.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
  • An underrated gem — not enough people have seen this top-tier season — Squirrels Trip has some fabulous vocals, very funny lyrics, a heavy dose of stupid, and an engaging story.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025

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“Goof.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goof. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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