How to Use daft in a Sentence

daft

adjective

• Your idea seems a bit daft to me.
• She looked at us as if we'd gone daft.
• Judging a stock by its name may not be a daft strategy after all.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2019
• Nobody, not even that lot, is daft enough to borrow at 18 per cent and lend at 10 per cent.
  — Matt Slater, The Athletic, 19 July 2024
• Nobody at the San Siro was daft enough to cast him as a marquee acquisition.
  — Phil Hay, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• The Beatles went a bit daft in their quest to be the Band, even dressing the part for their final photo shoots.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
• Plus, the whole idea that the purpose of anti-monopoly law was to promote good monopolies was just … daft.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• One of the telltale signs of white supremacy is the assertion that black people are too daft to comprehend symbols of white supremacy.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
• Almost everyone thinks this is daft but won’t say so, because the trans issue is the most pressing social-justice matter of the day.
  — James Lileks, National Review, 25 July 2019
• Does this praise even track for a generation raised on politicians who make hay exploiting daft cultural skirmishes?
  — Virginia Heffernan Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• In most administrations, such daft behaviour would be a sacking offence.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Those daft suggestions got the cogs turning at 90min towers, wondering what else could, and perhaps should, be trademarked.
  — SI.com, 31 July 2019
• The righty came to Chicago’s pre-daft workout weighing 165 pounds and already touching 95 mph.
  — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• Only Paul could have the daft stamina to keep chasing his vision of bringing this song to life, just as only John could have lighted this fire in him.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• Which, of course, sounds daft since voters headed to the polls last Tuesday or headed to their mailboxes at some point to send in their absentee ballots.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2020
• Lots of music by Bach, of course, but also jazzy improvisations and a concert to celebrate a daft knight-errant.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
• That effort may seem daft, as such vibrations constitute heat, which obliterates delicate quantum states.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
• Wafting about in a flowy, sky-blue negligee, Rachel Bay Jones’ lady of leisure is daft but sweet and accidentally profound.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
• The cracking of the mystery, at the conclusion of Gemini, is daft and unsatisfying, but no matter.
  — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• All of this is serious, and Public Health's suggestion to exercise social distancing seems very daft.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
• This is actually the third iteration of Ford’s daft idea of distilling supercar performance into a work van.
  — Damon Lavrinc, WIRED, 15 July 2013
• The wholesaler’s daft budget paints a grim picture, opening with a startling message from the agency’s soon-to-retire general manager, Sandy Kerl.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
• Due to some daft scheduling, the match was played under the baking afternoon sun - around 100 degrees Fahrenheit - in this famously harsh climate.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• Krejci’s sending off for two bookings in just 196 seconds certainly looked like one of the daftest dismissals of the Premier League season.
  — Steve Madeley, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• That the Catholic Church should have acted as one of the brakes on that daft mysticism will perhaps perplex the Bill Mahers of the world, who understand so little about it.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 June 2019
• Someday soon — maybe in a year, maybe at the next Olympic trials — Americans will look back at last week's events and ask how any organization could have been so daft, so anachronistic, so wrongheaded.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• Miller is spot on and delightfully funny as the seemingly daft court counselor Polonius, in many ways the antithesis of Hamlet’s absent father and uncaring uncle.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 4 June 2017
• But unlike the first film, Sonic 2 has a daft sense of fun that feels totally self-assured, a proper blend of kid-friendly gags and deeply dorky world building, complete with post-credit sequences and ever-expanding lore.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
• The internet has accelerated the spread of absurd theories, but these are a continuation of the sort of daft rumors that have always circulated in human communities.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• What looks a daft choice to most economists made perfect sense to Richard Thaler, who on October 9th was awarded the Nobel prize for economics for his work in behavioural economics.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2017