0 a remark or action that is a social mistake and not considered polite:
1 an embarrassing mistake:
There are many well-presented examples, and few obvious gaffes or errors.
Aside from many inadequacies in relating the work to the relevant literature, this book is marred by numerous technical errors and gaffes.
A negative event (a scandal or gaffe) would thus reduce the score by one for all days until the next event, when it would either increase or decrease by one.
Campbell's tone of off-the-cuff approval or dismissal is exacerbated by some editorial gaffes.
We must get away from treating every issue as a gaffe, a split or a personality clash.
That sounds like a gaffe but actually his aim was perfect.
However, there has also been a series of gaffes, such as the failure to implement in good time the standards for disposing of animal carcasses.
He may not have meant that but it was a gaffe on his part to put it in a letter.
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