Words similar to gaffe

Example sentences for: gaffe

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A cynical part of me wants to believe that one of every two viewers tuned in hoping to see a gaffe, but not even the now-famous pop quiz--the You're No Jack Kennedy of the 2000 campaign--has slowed the juggernaut.
Richard Durbin, D-Ill., likened Starr to the obsessed, wrongheaded investigator in The Fugitive . Republican senators groaned at Starr's gaffe, citing it as further evidence that the independent counsel law should be scrapped.
She said members could have a quick caucus during the period set aside for closing statements at the end of the debate to decide what the gaffe had been.
1, is what made it genuinely troubling, a legitimate gaffe.
Mockability is an evanescent quality; it's the slip-up, the gaffe, the anomalous pratfall.