Example Sentences

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The Games are unpredictable theater, but they can also be goofily predictable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Half of the album's 12 songs are about falling completely, goofily, head over heels in love.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

Some are goofily anachronistic, as when Johnson mutters a few times about pulling himself up by his bootstraps like everyone else.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2024

But there’s no getting around the mishmash of goofily comic and maudlin tones “1776” largely operates in, nor is there a satisfying solution to its essentially toothless perspective on the founders’ moral failings.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2023

I watched him grin goofily up at her.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli