goofy
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Chud’s goofy name didn’t register with the man until I explained exactly who Eatherly was.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Behind the friendly, cap-wearing Beaver with the goofy smile is a hit-style trademark enforcement legal team that is slowly taking-out cartoon animals one by one,” trademark attorney Alice Denenberg wrote in an online post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Erling Haaland stood on the pitch in Dallas, a goofy grin across his face and a Viking helmet atop his head at a jaunty angle.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
What follows is an unrepentantly goofy scene in which Mary attempts a serious discussion about and demonstration of the difference between lark and thrush calls.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Dimple may just have been laughing at the goofy expression on his face.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Even Charles’ goofier moments gleam with a satin elegance that scrapes against the no-nonsense manner of Estrada’s P.I.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2024
But POP may never have been goofier than with “Don Bucefalo,” performed in the Italian historic society founded in 1877.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
The Mandalorians-verus-pirates sequence is some real old-fashioned Saturday matinee stuff, leaning hard into some of the scenario’s goofier aspects.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
The goofier “Shazam!,” which cost closer to $100 million to make, opened with $53.5 million in ticket sales and wound up an over-achieving success with $366 million worldwide.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
But where Stewart’s comedy on the series tended to be political, Zelensky’s sometimes veered into much goofier territory — more like Jimmy Fallon.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2022
The French have given us Delacroix, Debussy, Claire Denis and Simone de Beauvoir, along with some of the goofiest of goofball comedies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Pacific Opera Project, L.A.’s goofiest opera company, has never been goofier nor made goofiness so radiant as in its revival of a super-obscure 19th-century satire, Antonio Cagnoni’s “Don Bucefalo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
He apologised for a follow-up track he released promising to "humble" Kendrick, saying it was the "lamest, goofiest" thing he'd recorded and was a "mis-step".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
And then I went to work and wrote just the goofiest sketch that I think made it on that day that was like, 'Join the fun!
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024
An Indian boy about her age was gazing down at her with the weirdest, goofiest grin on his face.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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