Sentence examples for word gaffe from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Trump says controversial things so routinely that the word "gaffe" has lost all meaning.

The word gaffe gets a pretty good workout.

After the "La La Land"/"Moonlight" envelope mix-up at the Oscars, searches for the word "gaffe" spiked on the Merriam-Webster website, the company said Monday.

In the case of the N-word gaffe, Madonna says it was Rocco who told her how to caption the photo.

The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.

In other words, if your gaffe goes directly to the main argument you are trying to make about yourself with the electorate, or if it substantiates the most relevant thing that your rival would have us believe about you, then it has the potential to become a serious problem.

Chinese diplomats might be tempted to recall that Prince Charles routinely snubs ("snub" is like "gaffe", a word mainly used in headlines) big Chinese events – can anyone remember why? – while the Queen's consort made "slitty eyed" jokes on his last Chinese tour in 1986.

He hasn't said a word about Maldonado's big gaffe on crime, leaving Arnold's ex-lieutenant governor to twist in the wind, trying to fend off charges of racism after his backfiring attack on Brown's program of "realigning" lesser offenders from state to local custody.

In other words, it's a public gaffe waiting to happen.

Ford, in other words, did not build his gaffe by himself.

Yet, Cyrus's gaffe of forgotten words made me wonder about something else: Do we view AIDS as a disease of the past, one that is easily forgotten?