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Example sentences for: gaffe

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Starr's gaffe confirms this argument, freeing senators to vote not only against Clinton's removal but against censure as well.
At best, Gore's gaffe revealed a candidate so eager to pander to a Democratic constituency that he lost his bearings and overstepped the bounds of good political judgment.
For dessert she has gâteau and a sorbet and he has marrons glacés, though, as he is rather guache, he commits a gaffe by eating them with his fingers and then spills most of them on his serviette.
Mockability is an evanescent quality; it's the slip-up, the gaffe, the anomalous pratfall.
Their latest gaffe was to spend a year prosecuting Clinton for lying about consensual adultery, while the Willey investigation remained offstage.