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Example sentences for: goof

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In this case, for instance, the reader is left wondering what horrible goof is being suppressed, when actually it's just that congressman Stevens of Pennsylvania was mistakenly described as a senator from Massachusetts.
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."
It would really be lovely, for all concerned, if you were having a goof with Prudie.
Say it's all a goof.
Not surprisingly, a slew of bad reviews for this bottom-feeding comedy about a fish tank cleaner who falls into the gigolo business by accident: "Among devotees of comedy, Deuce Bigalow is for the undemanding" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Some go so far as to insult the cast, calling star Rob Schneider "a runty fellow of no particular talent" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). One reviewer pipes up in the movie's defense, calling Deuce "an hour-and-a-half goof on kinky sex, bathroom humor and inner happiness … a considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other SNL alums" (which is not saying much) and that it's "funnier than it deserves to be, not to mention rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out more about Rob Schneider.)