goof

Example Sentences

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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

But, you know, we're out to have fun and we're out to goof around.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2024

Which is how something like “Hit Man,” which seems at first glance like a goof, also can consider some of the deepest mysteries of the human condition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

As a goof, I’d told the kid that he had to learn everyone’s name.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman