What's the difference between boisterously and guffaw?

Boisterously


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a boisterous manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man of Ben van Beurden’s power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers.
  • (2) In a boisterous session of prime minister's questions, Cameron raised questions over Flowers's suitability to run the bank.
  • (3) Her childhood - split between a boisterous outdoorsiness and an intense inner life - was dominated by her overbearing mother, with whom she fought "steadily but reluctantly" until her death.
  • (4) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
  • (5) Less recognizable than its more boisterous counterpart and in some respects less tangible, this side of the problem of countertransference is no less important.
  • (6) Brodick's Ormidale Hotel is a boisterous, Camra-recommended pub with homecooked bar food and a large garden.
  • (7) When she talks about the difference the treatments made in her life, her voice – already cheerful – becomes boisterous.
  • (8) There are 2.46 million eligible voters who will elect 89 members of parliament after a boisterous nine-day campaign.
  • (9) A neighbour, the mother of three boisterous boys, left her family to fend for themselves at 8am and did not return until late in the evening.
  • (10) When he opened the newspapers on Thursday he found that his robust handling of a boisterous budget day had made him a parliamentary superstar in pinstripes.
  • (11) Was it the boisterous intrusion of her tone, the inexcusability of the phrase "lonely only", or the idea of strapping on skates as a euphemism for – what exactly?
  • (12) She described the elder Trump as “very, very difficult … loud and boisterous” and someone Trump was eager to impress.
  • (13) In a format that was three parts talkshow to one part gameshow, the candidates faced probing inquiries as well as random questions pulled from sealed envelopes as they sat almost knee-to-knee with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in front of a boisterous campus audience.
  • (14) The crowds are boisterous, desperate even, and the umpire tells them to shut it.
  • (15) Several attitudes toward this widespread adolescent behaviour are now current--and often in conflict--in our society, including viewing teenage intoxication as a symptom of problem drinking, a warning signal of future alcoholism, a reflection of cultural norms and social changes, and an expression of youthful boisterousness.
  • (16) Tonight we have made a little bit of history,” the white-haired Sanders said at a podium positioned between Wisconsin and United States flags at the outset of his hourlong speech before a boisterous crowd.
  • (17) By the end, the boisterous corner of Evertonians were crowing that his job was in danger.
  • (18) The giant banner unveiled before kickoff on the fondo sur , where Madrid’s most boisterous fans congregate, read: “ Juntos No Hay Imposibles ” (translation: “Together Nothing is Impossible”).
  • (19) On one side it said “Tired doctors make mistakes” and on the other “New contract – DNR.” The mood at the rally, just off Pall Mall, was defiant, boisterous and determined, though interspersed with noisy chants of “Hunt must go, Hunt must go” and “BMA, BMA, BMA”, in support of the organisation Hunt is trying to separate them from.
  • (20) There is a sports room, a little boisterous like a dressing room up and down the country.

Guffaw


Definition:

  • (n.) A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (2) And you also know that conceding goals is not something that brings you happiness … Unless,” he guffaws, “your masochism is actually a perversion, then that’s different.” It is a punishing, torturous profession.
  • (3) "For us it is very interesting to find Britain like this," Marcel said, guffawing.
  • (4) Even before the leader of the Liberal Democrats opened his mouth, his appearance last night was greeted with guffaws and eyeball-rolling from part of a focus group gathered for the Guardian by the qualitative polling firm BritainThinks.
  • (5) He laughs a lot – a booming, body-shaking guffaw at odds with his delicate features, wary eyes and the tough set to his jaw.
  • (6) There's perky, honeyed jazz from the live band when guests step on stage and plenty of warm laughter from the live audience, which sits rather awkwardly on radio: it's not always clear what the laughs are about, and it's odd to hear the midday news, for example, signed off with unexplained guffaws.
  • (7) I didn't understand much about the mechanics of government then, to say the least, and my response was, "Thank you very much Mr President ..." [she guffawed hilariously at the recollection] " ... but unfortunately I don't have money to go to Japan!"
  • (8) But on Monday the people of Birmingham laughed off Emerson’s comments, echoing a collective guffaw that erupted on Twitter.
  • (9) He added, earning guffaws from reporters: “I’m also very much a germaphobe by the way, believe me.” John McCain confirmed on Wednesday that he had handed the documents alleging secret Trump-Moscow ties to Comey.
  • (10) "Satire" is a fig leaf, permitting the sort of audiences who wouldn't dream of watching, say, The Hangover three whole hours of supposedly highbrow guffawing at gruesome variations on the pump-and-dump theme.
  • (11) A recent photograph in a Russian news-sheet that emerged this week showed a guffawing Navalny meeting Boris Berezovsky, the self-exiled tycoon who lives in London and serves as the arch-villain in Kremlin propaganda.
  • (12) There has been a degree of good-natured guffawing around Whitehall at the thought that Welby might be a spook, rather than any discernible nervousness that he is on the verge of being unmasked.
  • (13) I recently played this bit for my mom and she immediately guffawed, "You weren't five!
  • (14) At a minimum, they would be greeted with guffaws of incredulous laughter.
  • (15) Men are often heard guffawing at dinner when asked if they want "leg or breast".
  • (16) For anyone else, listening to the guffaws at Tory conference feels like being a teenager at some dire event your parents have dragged you to, and having to smile through gritted teeth while screaming silently inside your own head.
  • (17) And perhaps his swiftest, and only recent, campaign U-turn came when his team unveiled its appointment of Indiana governor Mike Pence as vice-presidential candidate, only to have the internet guffawing at the inadvertently phallic logo .
  • (18) This immediately provoked widespread guffaws from IT experts, for whom uninterruptible power supplies, back-up centres and “mirror” sites are the bread-and-butter basics of any major IT project.
  • (19) By contrast, Farage, like Johnson, appears to be genuinely enjoying himself most of the time, like a delighted Aquaphibian guffawing in a bumper car.
  • (20) When Catherine Ashton started on the daunting task of building the European Union's first diplomatic machine in late 2009, the Labour peer was met by guffaws of derision.

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