How to use "gaffe" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "gaffe" in popular movie and book plots

Michael Flaherty and his team grapple with a garbage strike and a political gaffe by the Mayor (Barry Bostwick) who accidentally insults gays. - Prototype (Spin City)
KTEE-TV television reporter David Rudy (Tim Conlon) has just suffered an on-air gaffe that could cost him his job. - Lost on Earth
Michael commits the apparently unforgivable gaffe of expressing his condolences to Gabi's mother. - Some Girls (film)
In confidence, he tells Hacker of Sir Humphrey's gaffe and gives him the tape, which the PM looks on as manna from heaven. - The Tangled Web

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