daffy
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And it’s the kind of daffy stuff that’s driving hardcore soccer fans crazy and confusing all the new ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
This is something far more daffy and useless: The brouhaha over unrequited affections between Seattle Mariners at the World Baseball Classic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
“Oh, Mary!,” a madcap comedy that imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a daffy alcoholic, is selling out nightly at a 295-seat theater in the West Village, and is likely to transfer to Broadway this summer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
But the order wasn’t just daffy; it was pernicious.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Noah and I are about eight and dressed in matching sailor outfits looking totally daffy.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
I reminded McKay of a moment of a much daffier sort that I observed years ago, during the making of “Anchorman 2.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
It's a short hop from his teen-noir doodles to Jeremy Scott's costumes for Katy Perry or from his warped '80s tunes about eating makeup to the daffier sides of Lady Gaga.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2016
But just as a botanical insurrection seems imminent —a sort of “Rise of the Planet of the Azaleas” — things take a kinkier and daffier turn.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2012
Marie's fluffs at rehearsals and on the air are daffier than anything a scripter might imagine.
From Time Magazine Archive
But that evening-long episode of The Fugitive, with play-by-play from Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw and seemingly every local newscaster in Los Angeles, was the daffiest media spectacle of the year.
From Time Magazine Archive
On that level, Sisters is a delight and is exquisitely performed, especially by Kahn as the ditsiest, daffiest and ultimately most devious of this matriarchal clan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Crazy Creightons is radio's daffiest 30 minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
If humor were measured in inches, Hutton and Prentiss would be the daffiest double in show business; since it isn't, they are merely the most promising young pair of romanticomedians currently in camerange.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You tourists still seem to have the daffiest notions."
From Sugar Plum by Bretnor, Reginald
