How to Use madcap in a Sentence

madcap

adjective

• Echoing the film, the score is a madcap blend of tones.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• But it’s the sort of inane piece of ephemera that can thrive in this madcap NFT world.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
• But don’t be fooled: Frost is more than the sum of his madcap fashion parts.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2019
• Amy wanted the show to have the speed of those old 40’s madcap comedy films.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• It’s the kind of over-the-top, madcap moment that’s made to be screeched about in group chats (or in my case, to colleagues on Slack).
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 30 July 2021
• There were enough turns and straightaways on our quick jaunt to get some sense of how madcap bonkers the Sapphire is.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
• The story — in all its madcap, reckless zeal — comes first.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• With a few madcap ideas and a song in their heart, the Teen Titans head to Tinsel Town, certain to pull off their dream.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2018
• The chapters are just long enough to include a madcap anecdote or two—Mr.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• Adverse weather threw her off-course, but the madcap stunt made headlines across the world.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Starting in the mid-1990s, Gaz Coombes brought a madcap energy to the Brit-pop era as the lead singer of Supergrass.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• With a few madcap ideas and a song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• While there are abattoir scenes, and no shortage of heartache, much of the film is madcap and light, and shot through with Mr. Bong’s wry humor.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 23 June 2017
• The madcap plot reads like Nancy Pelosi’s birthday wish.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2020
• The stop-start rhythm gives the song tension, while the madcap keyboards, manned here by Lafayette Leake, match the lyrics in outrageousness.
  — Jim Farber, EW.com, 23 July 2024
• The Cubs are a thoroughly modern team whose hitters take madcap from-the-heels swings.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
• The Chiefs stuffed the 49ers on the ensuing possession, and Williams capped the madcap fourth quarter with a 38-yard touchdown run.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• In the days and weeks ahead, Rudy Giuliani and his colleagues will go on with their madcap legal efforts.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2020
• The scene is straight out of Boots Riley’s madcap moviemaking handbook.
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023
• Then baseball can get on to promoting what should be a madcap race.
  — Dallas News, 17 June 2020
• Lightning McQueen comes to mind, the wheels coming off after a madcap sprint to the finish line.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• Despite being down to nine men, Ajax still pressed and a winner for the Dutch side would have been fitting for such a madcap game.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
• The madcap plot will keep readers in suspense until the final page.
  — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• However, a madcap final quarter of an hour saw the Sounders win by the odd goal in seven.
  — SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• In the unpredictable, madcap finale, All the Dead Biddles feels a little like a bad dream.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Arozarena’s madcap trip around the bases somehow matched the route the Rays took to victory in a game that featured three lead changes in the last four innings.
  — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
• This isn’t meant to be a tense narrative, just madcap cleverness for its own sake.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2018
• Life is so good here that even the minor disaster of having his phone stolen plays out in a cutesy, faux-madcap manner.
  — Hank Stuever, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2017
• This madcap romantic comedy may just be the romance novel of the summer, with its unique, funny, and heartfelt tale.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
• Beetlejuice gave us our first introduction to the full, uncut Burton sensibility, in which the macabre and the madcap walked hand in hand while Michael Keaton ricocheted off the walls.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024