Crossword clues for gaffe
gaffe
- Embarrassing mistake
- Big mistake
- Foot-in-mouth incident
- Huge blunder
- Embarrassing error
- Campaigner's blunder
- Big boo-boo
- Social blooper
- Pol's blooper
- Embarrassing slip
- Embarrasing mistake
- Campaign-trail blooper
- Big blunder
- Verbal faux pas
- Unintended infelicity
- TV debater's worry
- Social slip-up
- Social mistake
- Politician's slip-up
- Mistake on the campaign trail
- Foot-in-mouth blunder
- Foot-in-mouth act
- Embarrassing blunder
- Embarrassing blooper
- Diplomatic blunder
- Campaign trail howler
- Faux pas
- Boner
- Blooper
- Blunder
- Misstep
- Howler
- Social blunder
- Big faux pas
- Putting one's foot in one's mouth, e.g.
- Politician's misstep
- Mistake that people laugh about
- Campaign setback
- A socially awkward or tactless act
- Bad slip
- Apology preceder
- Social faux pas
- Boo-boo
- Mistake involving hook at end of line
- Slip outside from fire after smoke retreats
- Faux pas boss cut short
- Putting one's foot in one's mouth, e.g
- Blunder made by manager losing final piece
- Amazing affection masks this mistake
- Tactless remark
- Minor mistake
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gaffe \gaffe\ (g[a^]f), n. A socially awkward or tactless act.
Syn: faux-pas, solecism, slip, gaucherie.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"blunder," 1909, perhaps from French gaffe "clumsy remark," originally "boat hook," from Middle French gaffe (15c.), from Old Provençal gafar "to seize," probably from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *gaf-, which is perhaps from PIE *kap- "to grasp, catch" (see capable). Sense connection between the hook and the blunder is obscure; the gaff was used to land big fish. Or the Modern English word might derive from British slang verb gaff "to cheat, trick" (1893); or gaff "criticism" (1896), from Scottish dialect sense of "loud, rude talk" (see gaff (n.2)).
Wiktionary
n. A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public.
WordNet
Usage examples of "gaffe".
Republican strategist Roger Ailes that the press was mostly interested only in conflict, scandal, polls, process and gaffes.
Nervous about his costly library and his revisionist views, they were always eager to speak to Cassandra, hoping for some gaffe or juicy bit of gossip to pass her lips.
I whistled in amazement, then realized I had committed an unrecallable social gaffe as I saw Capers, Mrs.
She did not seem at all discomforted by her gaffe, and Margaret sensed that she was actually having a very good time.
These aesthetic gaffes give one an almost uncontrollable urge to make fun of Microsoft, but again, it is all beside the point--if Microsoft had done focus group testing of possible alternative graphics, they probably would have found that the average mid-level office worker associated fountain pens with effete upper management toffs and was more comfortable with ballpoints.
It was considered something of a social gaffe to cuddle up to a different sort of animal.
It was considered something of asocial gaffe to cuddle up to a different sort of animal.
Saving up the remainder - all noted with sharp eyes and double-checked mentally to avoid a second similar gaffe - for an unusually extensive series of set-piece forfeits at the end of the evening.
Recalling a string of gaffes, including the delayed searches of the victims’ homes, the sticks Ridge recovered from the woods more than three months after the murders, and the lack of blood at the scene, Ford derided the investigators.
I don’t set much store in elaborate conspiracies and cover-ups, but I’ve seen enough bureaucratic gaffes and fumbles in my time to believe quite heartily in them.
He had a pretty good idea who everyone was already, and if any gaffes were made, there was no one important around to observe it.
Fortunately, they'd all done well in null-grav training, and there were no embarrassing gaffes as, one-by-one, they swung themselves into Hexapuma's midships boat bay's one standard gravity.
For a man with a temper, a reputation for suffering fools ungladly, McCain is unbelievably patient and decent with people at THMs, especially when you consider that he's 63, sleep-deprived, in chronic pain, and under enormous pressure not to gaffe or get himself in trouble.