GUFF Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

guff

noun

ˈgəf

as in nonsense

language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense and don't give me any of your usual guff about having to work late

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Recent Examples of guff But she's also just wrapped filming another movie for Netflix that will find her buff and taking no guff. —

Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 3 July 2025 What sets even Milosz’s early poems of exile and displacement apart is his talent for burying an appalled stringency beneath sentimental guff. —

William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025 But Pagano also wouldn’t put up with any guff. —

Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2025 In recent years, Portland has become a byword for fashionable left-wing guff, including the notion that crime and homelessness are little more than voluntary social constructs that are better fought with kind words and substantial welfare spending than with the assiduous enforcement of the law. —

The Editors, National Review, 23 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for guff

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Noun

That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026
Let’s see if the Pomona Unified School District, which pays thousands of dollars to support its schools’ athletic program, is going to act and stop this nonsense.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026