as in silly
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
their daffy antics made generations of movie audiences laugh
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Recent Examples of daffy
At one party, the camera catches Elizabeth’s slightly daffy mother (Brenda Blethyn) somewhat tipsily walking through the crowd while eating a bowl of dessert.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
No matter how daffy some of it is, the production has the important factor of clarity; a quality that the great stage director Peter Hall used to say is a vital component of any revival of a classic.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Apr. 2025
But there’s a tender vulnerability to his characters, and the daffy empathy that suffuses the writing is unique to Arbery.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
In his first film, Kilmer starred as rockabilly teen idol Nick Rivers in the daffy spy spoof Top Secret!
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
No matter how daffy some of it is, the production has the important factor of clarity; a quality that the great stage director Peter Hall used to say is a vital component of any revival of a classic.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Apr. 2025
But there’s a tender vulnerability to his characters, and the daffy empathy that suffuses the writing is unique to Arbery.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
In his first film, Kilmer starred as rockabilly teen idol Nick Rivers in the daffy spy spoof Top Secret!
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daffy
Adjective
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But the tone swings between sour and sweet, grounded and silly, and the jokes run more broadly wacky than precise or original.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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In my eyes, much of the charm of a craft brewer is a willingness to be a little silly.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But, God, to be able to play a Pablo Escobar who was just petty and wanted friends, there was something so stupid and so hilarious about that to me.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
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Keaton continued to play oddballs with a peculiar way of talking, though none were trivial or stupid.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Misiorowski had made Edman look foolish in their first matchup, getting the infielder to swing through a wicked curveball.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Orús and Lizaso believe that the AI arms race is foolish.—
Vivienne Walt,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This would be an absurd show of force, and totally uncalled for during a government shutdown when members of the military cannot even get a paycheck.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Oct. 2025
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Knightley and Pearce coast and their characters never come alive and resort to doing silly things at this misfire’s absurd, regrettable finale.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The outpouring of people on social media was insane.—
Wendy Grossman Kantor,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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The trailer teases spicy fights, insane games, and twists.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Whether these experienced hands can keep up with their mad scientists is less clear.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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David’s flagship product is an almost Frankensteinian creation, more mad scientist than culinary.—
Ashley Lutz,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Many teams use crazy pre-snap motion to distract defenses, or rely on versatile, mobile quarterbacks to figure the chaos out.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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The fans are going crazy, 50,000.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In Johnston’s reimagining, Jim and Credenza Twit operate the most disgusting, dangerous, and idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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That’s just idiotic foreign policy.—
Jamie McIntyre,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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