The word 'gaffe' is correct and usable in written English.
Generally speaking, a gaffe is an embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation. For example, you could say, "John made a gaffe at the party last night when he accidentally insulted his host".
You have already provided suggestions of how Gordon Brown might save himself after yesterday's "bigot" gaffe, but will he successfully defend Labour's record on the financial crisis?
It's been classic Blair: the lawyerly evasions over the wording of the September 2002 dossier, the self-deprecating asides over his Fern Britton interview gaffe, the deliberation conflation of the 9/11 attacks and Iraq's weapons programmes, real or imagined.
Plenty of ink has been spilled in recent weeks on exactly how racist the film industry may or may not be – including the furore over Cumberbatch's "coloured" gaffe – while industry insiders mutter that delayed delivery of DVD screeners played its part.
They were followed by a press pool van and a Democratic tracker from the campaign group American Bridge on his own motorcycle, hoping to somehow catch Walker committing a gaffe on the open road.
✒For Radio Times editor Ben "Hilter" Preston, the gaffe nightmare continues.
One of the biggest Labor scalps is the loss of David Bradbury, who made a few headlines when he lost his cool with a radio host, but that's not the gaffe we're talking about in his seat of Lindsay.
Photograph: Joe Castro/AAPImage Updated at 1.46pm AEST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.41pm AEST03 41 After a quite serious 24 hours of deciding our nation's future, we may have forgotten about the lighter/infuriating moments of the campaign, so let's take a look at how the most gaffe-prone candidates fared.
He was meant to have folded by now, to have crumbled under the pressure and turned into a gaffe-prone wreck.
Most observers believed Bachmann's campaign to be gaffe-prone, while her extreme social views alienated moderate voters.
Miliband was meant to have folded by now, crumbled under the pressure and turned into a drooling, gaffe-prone wreck That's partly because he has refused to follow his part in the script.
Biden's reputation is as gaffe-prone but he avoided any over the 90 minutes.
