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
Some wizard just proposed fixing this daffy, diluted, far-too-long 16 team playoff by making it 24 teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
But the order wasn’t just daffy; it was pernicious.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
But Galitzine’s daffy line readings keep making you do a double take.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 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
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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
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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
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The Crazy Creightons is radio's daffiest 30 minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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"You tourists still seem to have the daffiest notions."
From Sugar Plum by Bretnor, Reginald
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