How to Use doofus in a Sentence

doofus

noun

• I don't want to be partnered on the project with that doofus.
• Don't be such a doofus.
• Be the doofus who tries skateboarding for the first time at age 53.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 17 June 2022
• And sure enough, here’s a doofus leaning in for a closer look.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• And, yup, Archie convinces his band of doofus jocks (and perfect Kevin) to join the Dark Circle again.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 2 May 2018
• To a pint-sized doofus like myself, this was by far the coolest thing imaginable.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• One way of culling the herd of doofus drone pilots is (gentle) mockery—and that’s the true meaning of DroneCrashmas to me.
  — Faine Greenwood, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2018
• If something doesn’t sound bad enough on its face, tie it to something even a doofus knows is awful.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2021
• Platt’s off-putting doofus is such a self-congratulatory stunt — and of a piece with the entire film.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
• One of the main reasons Clinton lost was that her central campaign platform plank was her assertion that Trump is a creep, a jerk and a doofus.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 2 June 2017
• As Irons plays him, at least until the movie’s swerving finale, this PM is a likable doofus, certain that any problem can be solved with a handshake and a cup of tea.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Jan. 2022
• Kramer was the prototype of the hipster doofus, an urban species about as likely to be eradicated as the cockroach.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
• What happens when a bad-tempered, distractible doofus runs an empire?
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Terry Bradshaw was benched in Pittsburgh and got the reputation for being a doofus.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Bryan Jager has a fun number as a sensitive scallywag; Jarrett Poore gets laughs as a lovable doofus.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• Sitcoms have simply swung to the other end of the spectrum, portraying dads as clueless, bumbling doofuses.
  — Aaron Traister, Redbook, 20 Sep. 2012
• With great power comes great responsibility... to not be a doofus.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2018
• Officer Dixon at first glance seems a classic mouth-breathing doofus with a comic malevolence that is vintage Sam Rockwell.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
• Johnny is a very funny, very thrilling combination of playful writing and a canny performance of doofus-tude.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
• Certainly not the gormless Parson Henry, or the doofus-y mountain man (Nathan Zellner) who crosses paths with them in the wilderness, sporting a malfunctioning rifle and a nasty temper.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• Anyone who wants to tell you it’s someone other than Brady either wears cheese for a hat, has Archie Manning among his favorite phone contacts, or is hosting a debate show that no one outside of the doofus hosts takes seriously.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
• But there’s just no way that 29 women yearned to marry this American-Eagle-assistant-manager-ass doofus and go live with him in Arizona forever.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 5 Mar. 2018
• But Dupieux has always created mini-universes in which his deadpan-doofus characters can pinball about obeying the laws of a physics not quite the same as ours, so in many ways, the restrictions don’t seem to have restricted him that much.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• Calvin, a doofus with inappropriate intentions, has an old friend—a hedge-fund manager, Ivy League alumnus and, presumably, a donor—through whom Calvin can place one student a year at Honor’s would-be alma mater.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Since there are only two noteworthy humans in the story — one is dumped after the opening ten minutes and the other is a comedy-relief doofus — humanity is notably missing from the story.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 31 Oct. 2021
• Patiño delights with the precise gestures to convey that though Ernesto is there to get paid to support his family, compassion for another person, even a privileged doofus, shouldn’t be conditional.
  — Carlos Aguilar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, arguably his magnum opus and potentially his second-to-last feature film, sees Tate escape her brutal murder, her would-be attackers slashed and burned by two heroic doofuses: one an actor, one a stuntman.
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
• In a classic doofus misstep, Mnuchin punctuated his tweet with a flag emoji apparently intended to display his patriotism.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 8 May 2020
• Extending their doofus-and-diva act to the classrooms, corridors, and teachers’ lounge transfers their personal careerism into a facetious representation of a major social institution.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Apr. 2022
• The temptation is obvious: Senior national-security professionals regard Trump as something between (at best) a reckless incompetent doofus and (at worst) an outright Russian espionage asset.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024