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daftness

  • a word derived from daft.

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Another attraction was a fondness - some might say daftness - for asking all sorts of people to come along and DJ.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

It is a more wholistic stench that includes, at various times, a lack of communication, poor judgment and general daftness.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2022

Rory O’Malley turns up the daftness on King George’s 1960s-style British pop ditties with royal aplomb.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2021

I love the daftness of the phrase “wild Atlantic way.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

"One good prog wid pay for this night's daftness," growled his leader, and again came Gilchrist's voice— "Was I tae ken McKinnon was ootside Finlay Stuart's and a dozen o' ye in the kitchen."

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John