How To Use Gaffe In A Sentence

The gaffer is such a good manager that he is bound to attract interest from bigger clubs.
This was no obvious gaffe as it would have been had it emanated from the lips of George Bush, oh no, this was perhaps a "knowing casualism". Look, Obama just doesn't make gaffes, OK?
He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
It was an embarrassing gaffe by any standards. Times, Sunday Times
The gaffer said he'd been fined for not doing the contract on time.

Both men, though, look set to make bigger names for themselves as gaffers than they did as players.
It looked ominous for Blues' new gaffer with five minutes on the clock. The Sun
And Joe Biden is going to make some kind of gaffed and the Republicans are going to try to use it against them. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2008
The gaffer made me captain at the start of the season and I want to be back out there helping the lads get back up the league.
He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
ACOSTA: During the primaries, Obama got tagged with the label elitist after a series of gaffes that suggested a lack of empathy for blue-collar voters. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
BILL SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, Carol, it was the gaffe of the week and maybe the campaign when John Kerry made what he called a blundered joke about President Bush, which came out as an insult to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2006
Dope and cocaine have become accessible to the grips, the gaffers and the best boys.
I find it interesting that both "Obama gaffes," from the first and the most recent debates, occured with questions where he was the first to answer, followed by Hillary Clinton who swept in and "whomped" him - proving his inexperience. John Edwards Doesn't Exist. Why? Because He Just Doesn't.
Link joe biden, is a gaffe machine. i remain commited to hillary clinton. she would have been able to bring this country together. i believe she is not done yet. do not rule her out. john mc cain will be the next president. — deborah Reaction in Scranton to Biden News - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The consul's comments were a major diplomatic gaffe.
The gobby singer posted an apology on her website after her interview gaffe. The Sun
The new gaffer's come in with his own way of thinking and it's totally different. Times, Sunday Times
Ms Royal has been damaged by a succession of foreign-policy gaffes in recent weeks, which have lent her campaign an air of amateurism.
He then ran through a series of gaffes Obama has made over the years before settling on his favorite one: the president pronouncing the word "corpsman" as "corpseman. Sean Hannity On Obama: 'I Don't Think He's That Smart' (VIDEO)
Old gaffers recited love-poetry, and made the evening shadows creep with more tales about a Greek-tongued demon of the hills.
He noticed that one of the old gaffers had a bluish lump under his right ear (he would forget his face but he would never forget his ear) and the girl had a fine golden chain around her bare neck.
Now a gaffe by the Highways Agency and the county council has left Lancastrians open to gibes from their Yorkshire neighbours.
He said: 'The gaffer just felt a bit let down. The Sun
With that apercu, the President joined a long line of gaffe-making chief executives that includes Ronald Reagan ("We begin bombing in five minutes") and Jimmy Carter (who told congressmen that, if Sen. Edward Kennedy were to run against him, "I'll whip his ass"). President Bush’s Swearing Ceremony - Tuned In - TIME.com
The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
We have added seven players, the gaffer has freshened things up and kept competition for places at a premium.
I had good days and bad days, and it's fair to say the gaffer can dish out the hairdryer treatment. The Sun
One can still operate collaboratively while being called boss or gaffer. Times, Sunday Times
The careers of three ministers are teetering on the brink after a series of gaffes though. The Sun
He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
Hopefully she will soon make another major gaffe and disappear back to the wilds, after sadly setting back the cause of women in American politics by decades. The Sun
THAT'S a nice bubble perm, gaffer. The Sun
So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Finnegans Wake
I could see guys taping in the windscreen with what looked like duct tape or gaffer tape. The Sun
He put the glass panel back in place, without being asked, and did a temporary seal with some gaffer tape. Times, Sunday Times
She slugged down her glass and picked up her bag while Stan smiled at my gaffe. THE MANANA MAN
Dope and cocaine have become accessible to the grips, the gaffers and the best boys.
The captain gaffed the fish and hoisted it aboard - a 36 inch striped bass gasping on the non-slip grey deck. Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City
Now he cannot wait for his first clash with his old gaffer as a coach. The Sun
And the WWF has not been without its problems: several accidents, lawsuits, bust-ups and gaffes all combining to give him some serious headaches in recent years.
Remember, a gaffe is when a politician says what they mean. Why You Should Vote For Scott Brown And Against Martha Coakley « Tai-Chi Policy
Even soldiers who sought to behave well in billets were not immune from gaffes.
And not just extras, gaffers and best boys either; she's apparently done this to several of her costars.
If you've ever watched the credits of a movie you've seen the word "gaffer"---he's the head electrictian on the set. Languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD.
We have had four weeks to prepare for it and the gaffer's got us geed up for this game. The Sun
I wondered whether you had any advice for a person prone to huge faux pas and social gaffes. Times, Sunday Times
Though she "gaffed" four times, it's clear she sees no connection between each instance other than how it could possibly benefit her politically. Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"
The embarrassing gaffe was contained in a pledge to deliver apprenticeships. The Sun
The gaffers gave us a bonus in Burgdy and Claray.
Is she committing a social gaffe? Times, Sunday Times
Finally, the book suffers from an unfortunate number of errors which exceed the allowable limit for typographical gaffes.
The gaffer deserves praise for the players he has brought in. Times, Sunday Times
At the boats side, those huge fins beat the water to a foam, before being gaffed aboard by the boats regular hand, Patrick.
Here, computer-illiterate small-time capitalists can commit gaffes, like holding the mouse upside down, without being seen.
Another possible solution is to use gaffer tape to bind the tops of your socks to your legs. Times, Sunday Times
I made a real gaffe - I called his new wife 'Judy' which is the name of his ex-wife.
At first Pak Rabun reminded me of an old English gaffer.
To save time, the skipper eventually backed up to the fish, which was gaffed aboard in a flurry of foam.
But the gaffer thought I'd looked all right in training and gave me the chance and I didn't want to let anyone down.
The gaffer may have had his eye on a few bargains playing in the finals. The Sun
In order to eat, they had to hang out with gaffers and best boys!
When the gaffer arrived, he knew many of the players by name only.
The trip began with an exhibition game in Budapest, Hungary, where he called the Czech Republic "Czechoslovakia" and made a few other minor international hockey gaffes at a press conference where he clearly did not look comfortable. Kuklas Korner
When I came back from injury earlier this season, the gaffer took a chance on me and played me up front against Dundee United.
When pundits expected his verbal gaffes to mark him as unqualified, instead the bloopers raised his stature as a guy too tough to crack a sissified book.
After a contest of strenght between the hooked subject and myself, me being the victor, a deckhand "gaffed" the monstrosity on my line (aka: fucking hooked it with a long poll) and hauled it aboard. Ronin622 Diary Entry
The embarrassing technical gaffe was in the first episode of the new series. The Sun
I made a real gaffe - I called his new wife 'Judy' which is the name of his ex-wife.
The selection gaffe stands out for its rarity value. Times, Sunday Times
And the 2013 calendar gaffe is just another episode that will leave them in despair. The Sun
Unfortunately for Urquhart, the only way to break through the media clamor is to have his most embarrassing gaffe resurrected. Tom Noyes: Glen Urquhart Struggles To Escape Shadow Of Christine O'Donnell
He said: 'The gaffer is very careful about who he brings in. The Sun
The gaffer has spoken to the chairman and told me to just get on with organising everything.
Somebody with such potential for embarrassing gaffes should forget about the White House. Times, Sunday Times
Often a media gaffe is not an isolated malapropism but a reflection of an executive's whole attitude.
The "dispirited" part is an obvious gaffe, but it seems that it's entirely possible to be a "conservative liberal," depending on what you mean by those terms. My campaign will be dispirited, because I'm a proud conservative liberal...
The Minister's gaffe came amidst a day of heightened pressure on all players involved in the saga.
Even with the occasional gaffe, marketers say placing products in movies is an increasingly important way to enhance exposure.
So was Friday's nonvote by the players a public relations gaffe, or prudent strategy? Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
You may want to start putting quotation maks around the word "flub" and "gaffe". Mitt Romney Wins Contest For Dumbest Obama-Osama Mixup Yet
Now he cannot wait for his first clash with his old gaffer as a coach. The Sun
Even his gaffes managed to raise sympathy among those who saw him as a feisty outsider amid the smarty-pants elites. Globe and Mail
They must not be in contact, -- perhaps because gaffer will gossip with gammer, and youth and maid will toy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
The incident is the latest in a string of embarrassing security gaffes to affect the software giant.
The gaffer may have had his eye on a few bargains playing in the finals. The Sun
And the new gaffer has yet to win after two games. The Sun
Now he cannot wait for his first clash with his old gaffer as a coach. The Sun
But he said: 'The new gaffer has really got us going. The Sun
And in a way they should, because he often makes gaffes when he's actually trying to put people at ease. The Sun
Predicting a better period under Smith, he has been impressed by the new gaffer.
His gaffe yesterday came as a poll showed Labour is heading for election turmoil in marginal constituencies. The Sun
The gaffer has not set me a specific target but I've set myself one to try and get at least ten goals this season. The Sun
A cute, but short, clip of goofs and gaffes from the season.
These gaffes can be attributed to his characteristic clumsiness.
They are great as a unit so although the gaffer won't be there he will be, if you know what I mean.
The gaffe was made at the annual dinner of the Perth Bar Association, in the regal splendour of the city's George Hotel.
ANOTHER of our other great footie columnists and an ex-England gaffer who is a master tactician. The Sun
A gaffe that seems far more unfortunate involves Mr.McC. 's rigid distinction between epiphora and epistrophe. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
If elected he would be almost seventy as he took office; some spectacular gaffes during the campaign did not inspire confidence.
Another possible solution is to use gaffer tape to bind the tops of your socks to your legs. Times, Sunday Times
The Cultural Cold War contains some silly mistakes and some real gaffes.
Those who know his mindset and attention to such detail are unsurprised by his quick progression through youth ranks, particularly, his current international gaffer, Kerr.
The gaffer and the players kept asking if they could see it, so why not?
The gaffer may have had his eye on a few bargains playing in the finals. The Sun
Polls in the weeks since the first debate have been volatile, but several have put his party in second place ahead of Brown, who could fall even further after a gaffe in which he called a lifelong Labour supporter a bigot. News for Opelika-Auburn News
C47's can often be seen used in many different ways on a filmset and are most commonly used by gaffers, grips and electricians. British Blogs
And due to their lack of knowledge, users are also prone to potentially embarrassing gaffes, according to new research. The Sun
“Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low — hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
As in all such debates, the principal goal is to avoid a gaffe which will make embarrassing headlines the next morning.
I don't think "gaffer" fits the "respectful form of address to a professional". Languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD.
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
I had to step up and score the last one and the gaffer was happy to give me the job. The Sun
The author eventually acclimatizes, and his entertaining gaffes become less frequent. The Daily Star > News Feed
The new gaffer has taken four points from his first two games. The Sun
The gaffer has worked hard with me and I've finally hit a bit of form now. The Sun
But you're apparently so beguiled by the rest of it -- especially the assurances at the very beginning -- that you are almost willing to forgive that wee cruciverbal gaffe. Skunkfeathers
The gaffer is also the one who selects the club 's transfer targets. The Sun
Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low -- hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
Another possible solution is to use gaffer tape to bind the tops of your socks to your legs. Times, Sunday Times
You are not prone to social gaffes, you are just deeply strange. Times, Sunday Times
Still, the Dodger skip delighted in watching the writer's gaffes.
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
Something to Do, a Ska band based in Waukesha, WI, has won a $2,500 prize for writing "When I'm Stuck I Turn to Duck Tape," a ska-anthem celebrating gaffer tape's many virtues. Boing Boing: December 7, 2003 - December 13, 2003 Archives
Oh, and people with unpleasantly posh Home Counties accents who speak far louder than they need to in an enclosed space should probably be gagged with gaffer tape.
He added: 'It shows that the gaffer is not going to leave any stone unturned to make us a better club and a better bunch of individuals. The Sun
I've made a couple of gaffes with experiments in all-night bleaching lately.
It looked ominous for Blues' new gaffer with five minutes on the clock. The Sun
If you are not doing it, the new gaffer tells you. The Sun
The overall squad isn't the biggest, so the gaffer needs as many players as possible and if everyone is fit, the squad is in better shape all round.
I would rather have a fork scraped repeatedly across my teeth than listen to one of his speeches waiting for a gaffe or one of his patented mistimed pauses.
I have discovered a few minor ones, but the biggest gaffe so far - a large chunk missing from Stravinsky's work list - has already been seen to, and purchasers of the books will receive a reprint of the full list.
Gaffer and gammer, man and maiden, were distributed, the ladies to the right of the aisle, the gentlemen to the left. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
` ` Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low --- hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont. '' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Not only is this expected, but if you are a smorrebrod rookie, this will calm your nerves and ensure that your table companions will not be inclined to remember your gaffes. NPR Topics: News
Everyone knows we haven't got the biggest squad in the world and it seems that every time the gaffer gets another player back in the mix, he loses another through either injury or suspension - or both!
He's also not bashful about experimenting with them while recording, which makes for some pretty funny gaffes.
The gaffer is also the one who selects the club 's transfer targets. The Sun
You clearly get a bit down after games like that, when you get a deserved rollocking off the gaffer.
It’s also worth recording some of the social media gaffes from this election. Computing
Ferguson, one of the last of the old-style authoritarian gaffers, has had those rules challenged in a world that makes some footballers behave like Hollywood megastars.
If the gaffer decides to make changes, we know he's got a good back-up squad.
After comments on the game title presented by cuyahoga and the appearance of character sketches of the theoretical Dudebro, GAFfers Jocchan and thetrin rolled with the idea of the game even further, laying the framework for what would become a legend. Neoseeker News Feed
It was very tough, we were the crew, the grips, the gaffers, the directors, Rob and I were two of the actors, we did the costumes, the make-up FX, everything.
The gaffer deserves praise for the players he has brought in. Times, Sunday Times
They even made TV Ad buys on it; she exploited it to the maximum, despited the fact that what Obama said was true but he choose poor wordings to express it just like Hillary did in this gaffe. Clinton op-ed: 'Why I Continue to Run'
We can see them all too clearly in other people: workout mistakes, diet goofs, social gaffes.
The latest verbal gaffe from the tea party-backed contender came when she squared off in a debate against Democratic opponent Chris Coons. Christine O'Donnell Can't Name A Democratic Senator, But Sends Hillary Clinton Some Love (VIDEO)
Mr. Chihuly called Mr. Rubino a "gaffer," a term for a glassblower who labors around a furnace at the instruction of an artist. Archive 2006-06-01
The beam above the bed was patched up with what appeared to be gaffer tape. Times, Sunday Times
The midfielder said: 'The gaffer has been working us very hard and it is paying off. The Sun
'The gaffer was a centre-half and he wasn't bad, was he? Football.co.uk news feed
Once a commentator commits a major rhetorical gaffe or colossal misstatement of fact, it becomes impossible to take them seriously.
Once it became publicized, the bureau's gaffe generated much clucking and snide comment on the nature of incompetence.
The coach proceeded to do a pantomime of a player misplaying a grounder, exaggerating a gaffe from the previous night's game.
The remarks were so bizarre some observers dismissed them as just another gaffe from a candidate dogged by allegations of infidelity and sending pornographic images by email. US shaken by sudden surge of violence against gay people
In contrast, when a Republican does something praiseworthy, that is unexpected, and like the Democratic gaffes, the unexpected engenders a response and a post. What lies beneath Althouse's purported cruel neutrality? -- a poll.
The gaffer's man-management skills really shone through when we lost seven games on the trot earlier in the season.
Adams fought the fish for over half an hour before he finally reeled in and gaffed the exhausted bass.
But if you're talking to make-up artists or gaffers or other rank-and-file workers in the industry, the values are much more traditional.
In her home-made oilskins held together with gaffer tape, the teenage was the most down-to-earth of sailing students.
Again and again the contributors write of you as a sort of capo, the gaffer, the boss.
Several of his major gaffes were simple mistakes of technique, which over time can be corrected.
This may seem like a minor detail, until you realize the gaffe.
Even his gaffes managed to raise sympathy among those who saw him as a feisty outsider amid the smarty-pants elites. Globe and Mail
It was the game with the gaffer tape that did it. Times, Sunday Times
It’s also worth recording some of the social media gaffes from this election. Computing
He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.
Minister Julia Gillard has been labelled a "ranga" in an embarrassing gaffe by New South Wales AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
It looked ominous for Blues' new gaffer with five minutes on the clock. The Sun
You can certainly take issue with the term comical but I don’t think its sufficient evidence of being mean spirited considering the mainstream media and gibbs have both had to clean up after Biden’s gaffes. The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality:
He said: 'The gaffer was told that things would happen and maybe they have not. Times, Sunday Times
She always had time for the gaffers, the prop guys, the stage hands, the script girls, even the security guards.
| Reply | Permalink ac 360 has been good lately. just ignore gloria borger. two nights ago he had on peter bergen (cnn senior security analyst) to ocntradict the "silver bulletness" of the surge. last night he had joe klein and david gergen talk about the timeline gaffe of mccain. joe klein opined further that mccain's scurrilous remarks about obama was a first for a presidential candidate. CBS Sidesteps Questions About Editing Of McCain Interview
I was sure that the bit about "prais [ing] his eloquence" was referring to another racial gaffe. Video: Kerry Endorses Obama, Praises His Eloquence
But the likelier cause of an upset is a gaffe that gets replayed in news bulletins and mocked by the press. Times, Sunday Times
The Gaffer's eyes wandered from a brambling hopping about the lichen-covered boulders, and away to the sea-fowl wheeling above the ships: and then came into his mind a tale he had read once in Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts
No matter what Gordon Brown hopes, his now notorious gaffe - nicknamed 'bigotgate' by the British press - is likely to play a pivotal role in the upcoming British elections. Bigotgate: The Fallout From Gordon Brown's Gaffe
Often a media gaffe is not an isolated malapropism but a reflection of an executive's whole attitude.
When having one-on-one chats with his gaffer they will converse in French.
If he hadn't said to me on Thursday ‘Gaffer I'll give it a bash!’
The gaffer deserves praise for the players he has brought in. Times, Sunday Times
The new gaffer has taken four points from his first two games. The Sun
I know all the lads are right behind the gaffer in his dislike of the United boss and they will be fired up - make no mistake.
we'd have another week of coverage dissecting his biggest political gaffe since rolling a gutter ball at a Pennsylvania bowling alley.
Ferguson, one of the last of the old-style authoritarian gaffers, has had those rules challenged in a world that makes some footballers behave like Hollywood megastars.
With respect to the film itself, there are many who take pride in highlighting the several goofs and gaffes on display.
But his midfield ace insists'the gaffer' is far more than just a quick wit and repartee act. The Sun
Sources insist he is equally keen to link up with his old gaffer on Merseyside. The Sun
It's either a brilliant PR move or (most likely) yet another dunder-headed, uncoodinated gaffe. Is the Bat out of the bag? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Positive'We were just trying to win games under the old gaffer and got too wrapped up in that process. The Sun
Use strips of black gaffer's tape along the edges of the negative carrier and enlarger negative stage after the carrier is placed in the enlarger.
He was forced to resign from the position of transport secretary at the end of May after an 11-month tenure marked by a series of gaffes and blunders.
Don't even think about ordering in Spanish or French - a diplomatic gaffe.
The fact that there are so many of these events taking place -- that they are "disorganized" -- and that they will feature political novices (not the pros pulling the strings) -- makes it likely there will be some gaffes committed. Undefined
By the men's own description, the shark suffered horribly, struggling for hours, being gaffed again and again, until he was finally dragged on board, thrashing for air.
A cultural gaffe would invite a pounding.
We've built and built and built since the new gaffer's come in. Times, Sunday Times
He said: 'I have spoken to the gaffer a few times but that is it so far. The Sun

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