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howler

noun as in belly laugh

noun as in gaffe

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The latest is maybe the biggest howler yet, bigger than even the ad that mistook Duke basketball players for UK Wildcats.

His portrait of Izzy Yanay, a partner in the highly regarded Hudson Valley Foie Gras, is a howler.

I remember, some years ago, how merrily you used to laugh about the "calamity-howler," whose habitat at that time was Kansas.

The old man was alive during the telephone call from the Grand Central, and dead when the howler was put on for the first time.

The telephone call at five minutes past twelve, and the howler put on soon afterward, checks up.

She came a fearful howler over a book which she herself has read, to my knowledge, within the last fortnight.

A reiterated word of the convulsive howler on the dock had stuck in the Tyro's mind.

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On this page you'll find 187 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to howler, such as: good one, guffaw, hoot, rib-tickler, riot, and roar.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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