as in nonsense
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
and don't give me any of your usual guff about having to work late
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Recent Examples of guff
Fiercely independent, Pavon took no guff.
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Katy Read, Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
But the workplace scenes, especially in early seasons, were also entertaining, thanks to a variety of celebrity callers (who weren’t playing themselves, which added to the fun) and Frasier’s capable producer, Roz (Peri Gilpin), who doesn’t take any guff from Mr. Pretentious.
—oregonlive, 2 July 2020
Mullen gets some guff about recruiting, because he’s never been in the same league as Nick Saban or Kirby Smart – or Urban Meyer during his Florida days.
—Christopher Smith, al, 2 Oct. 2020
Given him a lot of guff for his work over the years, but this was one of bill Mason’s ideas.
—Staff Reports, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
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Katy Read, Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
But the workplace scenes, especially in early seasons, were also entertaining, thanks to a variety of celebrity callers (who weren’t playing themselves, which added to the fun) and Frasier’s capable producer, Roz (Peri Gilpin), who doesn’t take any guff from Mr. Pretentious.
—oregonlive, 2 July 2020
Mullen gets some guff about recruiting, because he’s never been in the same league as Nick Saban or Kirby Smart – or Urban Meyer during his Florida days.
—Christopher Smith, al, 2 Oct. 2020
Given him a lot of guff for his work over the years, but this was one of bill Mason’s ideas.
—Staff Reports, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guff
Noun
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But when real users interact with it, the system collapses, generating nonsense or failing to handle inputs that deviate from the demo script.—
Albert Lie,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Slapping down Putin should mean something, but that pronouncement, like everything Trump utters, is undercut by him spouting nonsense, including about a third term, which his press secretary laughed off yesterday.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2025
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The site was first excavated beginning in 1995, and in 2018, scientists began collecting, analyzing and radiocarbon dating fossils unearthed from El Gigante rubbish piles.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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The organization also sampled 25 different polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organic compounds that form when oil, wood or garbage burns.—
Corinne Purtill,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Hazardous waste was being dumped into landfills along with household garbage and was often incinerated, which in turn sent the toxic materials into the atmosphere.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2025
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
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American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.—
Brandon Withrow,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
Noun
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These deaths come on the heels of the equally bizarre and jarring death of Adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) which brings us to four adult survivors dead, though Adult Travis died offscreen (sparking a really fascinating mystery that ended in sheer stupidity and disappointment).—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Also helpful is the show’s other winning quality: an enthusiastic embrace of its own stupidity.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2025
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2024
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“Guff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guff. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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