goof

I think pretty early on, we were like, “Let’s goof on Alex for a little while in this conspiracy world.”

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

“It’s a thing about my personality to be silly and goof around.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

I asked Clark if he was worried that a 58-year-old player would be a distraction to the program, or seen as a goof.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

"This is reputation management of the highest order," he wrote, criticising the "softest editing" which painted Sir Jacob wrongly as a "harmless gosh-and-golly goof".

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024

Sure, he's a goof most of the time, but I can count on him.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Airline fare goofs are rare—Thrifty Traveler has sent 20 mistake fare alerts since 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

It also has a few driving location goofs that make Californians giggle.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

That may make it easier to get correct answers, but also can make the stakes higher if the AI goofs and makes a user uncomfortable or botches financial data.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

By this point, I’ve made countless gardening goofs, big and small, and those mistakes have given me a healthy perspective on our limited power over nature.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023

“I heard you. Maybe I’m too old to get mad, or maybe what you consider goofs aren’t what / consider goofs—it’s just stuff that happens.”

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

Colbert often goofed on his public image with mock outrage over perceived offenses, a carry-over from his long-running shtick on “The Colbert Report.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

In down times, they played card games and goofed around, singing patriotic songs, recording videos and taking selfies.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2023

Washington, Seattle, is that the same thing?” goofed the geographically confused star.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

"Ecowas goofed, the Nigerian president also goofed," said Prof Khalifa Dikwa, an academic at the University of Maiduguri and a member of an influential group of elders in northern Nigeria.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023

If you picked number 2, you goofed, but don’t beat up on yourself.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

That problem-solving begins long before Saturdays, when Smith hones his particular set of skills in sessions that might otherwise look like goofing off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Geisel lasted less than a year in Oxford, but Jones says "once he's hooked up with Helen" he spent his time "travelling, goofing off and kind of really doing anything but his studies".

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

During the case, Varyukhina posted clips on Instagram of the couple goofing around in an apartment and dressing up in funny outfits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

Older kids and adults — even those who aren't furries — also love some animal-themed goofing off: Consider the mascots associated wity many college sports teams.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

“Just goofing around with some of my cousins. Too hot to be anywhere b-b-but in the water. What’re you d-d-doing, fishing or sleeping?”

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe