GAFFE

Foot-in-mouth incident

• Apology preceder

• Big faux pas

• Blooper

• Blunder

• Blunder among company

• Boner

• Campaign-trail blooper

• Embarrasing mistake

• Faux pas

• Howler

• Lack of tact, perhaps

• Minor mistake

• Misstep

• Mistake on the campaign trail

• Party blooper

• Putting one's foot in one's mouth, e.g.

• Social blunder

• Solecism

• A socially awkward or tactless act