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Example sentences for: gaffe

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He was the fellow who declared in 1980 that America's intervention in Vietnam was a "noble cause"--and the press trumpeted the comment as a gaffe.
Starr's gaffe confirms this argument, freeing senators to vote not only against Clinton's removal but against censure as well.
1, is what made it genuinely troubling, a legitimate gaffe.
Such a gaffe would have been mind-boggling from the author of Who the Bells Tolled For ...
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.