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guffaw

[guh-faw, guh-] / gʌˈfɔ, gə- /


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But even now, the news will occasionally let you get off a chuckle or guffaw, even if it isn’t always from your better nature.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025

Farther on, standing before “Pay Nothing Until April,” an exceptional 2003 painting that I hadn’t seen before, I let out an involuntary guffaw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Grant’s commitment to his dastardly rogue barely goes beyond his cravat — he’d rather guffaw than feign gravitas.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

"If I make you my cornbread, you'll marry me," he declares with a resounding guffaw.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022

That makes me cough out a single guffaw.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

And while much of the movie induces sidesplitting guffaws, Tremaine said that producer and co-creator Spike Jonze was eager to highlight the sensitive beats shared between the cast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

But when Amy Madigan’s deliciously wicked villain, Aunt Gladys, finally appeared in her blunt wig with lipstick smeared all over her teeth, even I couldn’t resist offering up some guffaws of my own.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026

They realized that these comments got a rise out of the girls and drew guffaws from the other boys; Amanda saw them looking around the classroom for reactions after saying something particularly shocking.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2025

"Someone wrote their number on a tissue the other day and I was like, 'Oh no, you're just not my type'," she guffaws.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

As his booming guffaws filled the train carriage, Elizebeth turned her head and looked out the window.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Still, I guffawed when Becket popped back into his present-day cell to poke fun at his audience, the Catholic priest: “The last thing the Church wanted was an investigation,” he says with a smirk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

It is no exaggeration to say I guffawed my way through it.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2023

At various points, others groaned and guffawed at Mr Gaetz's comments.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2023

And Kimmel guffawed at Fox’s attempts to spin the settlement in its favor, including a network statement that insisted it “reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

Mom guffawed, as if Henry’s statement had proven her point.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

As one guffawing TikToker put it, “Tim Burton was so tired of people saying that he don’t be putting Black people in his movies that he said, ‘Here!

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024

If you are then brave enough to tender an invitation, the entity will obligingly possess you while your guffawing friends, smartphones at the ready, gleefully capture its disturbing, sometimes embarrassing behavior.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

From beneath his silver helmet, Martin was guffawing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

About an hour later, however, I was guffawing so hard at Anderson’s everyday observations, endearing familial impressions and lithe, in-the-moment wit, that he started heckling me for being too enamored with the show.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022

She moved so fast it was as though she had Disapparated; one moment she was there, the next, she had squeezed between two guffawing witches and vanished.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling


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