guffaw
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You can never quite relax, because you're always just waiting for the raise of the eyebrow, the suppressed guffaw, the uninvited joke, whatever.
From BBC β Apr. 18, 2026
It’s typical of the home-state reporting corps to guffaw when their own governor is touted as a presidential candidate.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 14, 2025
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 β Oct. 10, 2025
While the typical person observes Harris’ effervescent guffaw, and thinks, “She seems fun!”
From Salon β Aug. 10, 2024
Mr. Clifton just laughed at that, a real guffaw.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
During her first appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in 1977, the host got huge guffaws from his studio audience by inviting Parton to “Sit down and take a load off your feet.”
From Salon β Aug. 26, 2026
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 β Jun. 29, 2026
Still, it’s a shame that for the first time in two and a half decades of cringe comedy, the guffaws feel forced.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 26, 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 β Dec. 5, 2025
And the happy guffaws stopped suddenly, like a smothered flame.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
It is no exaggeration to say I guffawed my way through it.
From Salon β Dec. 26, 2023
At various points, others groaned and guffawed at Mr Gaetz's comments.
From BBC β Oct. 3, 2023
Even those who experienced tribulations far worse than mine, cheered and guffawed with bottles of Champagne in hand, dressed in their most outrageous, albeit crusty, Burning Man finery.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 10, 2023
“Just your name,” the girl replied, and Capaldi guffawed.
From New York Times β May 6, 2023
“Hizzoner guffawed nonstop for a minute and a half after that one. Say, what did he mean by it? Were they in the circus?”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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 β Sep. 15, 2024
From beneath his silver helmet, Martin was guffawing.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 24, 2022
Laughter can be subversive, of course, and one of the great satisfactions of these films is watching so many women laugh — often guffawing, not tittering — through one predicament after another.
From New York Times β Aug. 19, 2022
Since 1970, Brown has been a near-constant presence in the halls of Jefferson’s Capitol — neck slung with cameras, Canon raised to his eye for a quick shot of lawmakers huddling, scratching, yawning, guffawing.
From Washington Post β Mar. 10, 2022
I can almost see Karly and Sal sitting there, guffawing as I speak.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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