How to Use daffy in a Sentence

daffy

adjective

• The book is filled with daffy characters.
• The actress is starring in a daffy new comedy this summer.
• Our two leads have amazing hair, cute kitchens, daffy aunts, and…oh yeah, some sort of curse to deal with.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• But McElwain was daffy enough that posing naked on top of a shark didn’t seem out of character.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• The humor is not as daffy as in Edward Lear, and not as elaborate as in Lewis Carroll.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• The routine was a little bit daffy — a wuxia grandmaster with a hint of Lucille Ball.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• The two pieces of this film don’t always plug into one another so smoothly, but the dissonances still make for a daffy good time.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2022
• Each actor plays multiple roles, which suits the daffy atmosphere.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 June 2017
• Nonetheless, there are some downright daffy decrees out there.
  — Doug Bierend, WIRED, 28 July 2014
• Did Nordo’s screechingly daffy ex-wife (Opal Peachey), gadding about with an imaginary Chihuahua on a leash, off him with a butcher knife?
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• Many of them are daffy, such as when Liz and Gabby begin competing for Alice’s attention.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
• In For Your Consideration, from 2006, Coolidge is a daffy film producer.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• But to a degree, the charmingly daffy anachronistic dialogue compensates for a plot that feels like a fait accompli.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• There’s lyricism and humor, too, especially from Medea’s tart servant Tita, and her daffy neighborhood friend, Louisa, who runs a churro cart.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2019
• More than once, Barbarisi must find a diplomatic way to let Beep know how daffy his latest take on a Fennian ambiguity appears to an outsider.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• A wildly daffy premise tempered by impressive emotional depth.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Well, no show about an ex-con motel manager and her daffy family was likely to provide stiff competition for Steel’s glamorous romances.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The songs on the album are tamped down and less flamboyantly daffy than his previous ones, presumably in performance of a gritty authenticity.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
• Biden’s daffy proposal to rely on wind and solar power would gut our economy and make our energy supply weather-dependent.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2020
• The process of Herschel making his own pickles — involving produce retrieved from a dumpster, salvaged jars, a converted supermarket cart and rainwater — is funny in a quaintly daffy way.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2020
• Lynch still likes to mix the surreal and the silly, with truly strange events that defy explanation alternating with comic relief provided by the ridiculously daffy staff of Twin Peaks' sheriff's department.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Randolph's harried, brutally honest Beth and Patti Harrison, as a daffy social-media manager, also regularly manage to steal their scenes from the margins.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
• In addition to Bening, Gerwig gives her finest performance in recent memory, submerging her familiar (and delightful) daffy persona to portray a character on her own sometimes-heartbreaking search for meaning and purpose.
  — Ann Hornaday, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2017
• Take two daffy metalheads from San Dimas, California, place them alongside disapproving parents, famous historical figures, or worshipful citizens of the 27th century, and watch the sparks fly.
  — Vulture, 28 Apr. 2022
• The stage, outfitted with kiddie pools, fairy lights and even a tiki bar that serves alcoholic refreshments, is where theatergoers congregate for this jocular, beach party update of a musical entertainment already overtopped with daffy cleverness.
  — Matt Cooper, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018

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