Words similar to goof

Example sentences for: goof

How can you use “goof” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In another example, goof vb, goofball n, goof off vb, goof-off n , and goof up vb are all labeled “American,” but not goof n or goofy , the latter of which could hardly be a “back formation” from goof , and is probably reinforced (if it is universal) by the Disney character.
After all, such calculations would prove that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids or pretty women, that they never goof off on the golf course and that they never waste money in general, because all these things would reduce their market performance.
An amusing series of titles that open the film now urge the audience not to get too worked up--to see the movie not as a fanatical attack on religion but as a reverent goof.
In the same deceptive spirit, Fischer claims that a similar calculation would indicate that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids, or that they never goof off on the golf course--even though he makes no attempt to supply that calculation.
In the musical The Pajama Game , the big dance number, "Once a Year Day," has the lyrics "Everyone's entitled to be wild, be a child, be a goof, raise the roof," at which point the entire chorus raises a "two-armed palms-skyward pump."