How to Use daffy in a Sentence

daffy

adjective
  • The book is filled with daffy characters.
  • The actress is starring in a daffy new comedy this summer.
  • Our two leads have amazing hair, cute kitchens, daffy aunts, and…oh yeah, some sort of curse to deal with.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Lexi’s onstage persona turns out to be a daffy and bratty bundle of joy.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Nonetheless, there are some downright daffy decrees out there.
    — Doug Bierend, WIRED, 28 July 2014
  • Each actor plays multiple roles, which suits the daffy atmosphere.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 June 2017
  • But McElwain was daffy enough that posing naked on top of a shark didn’t seem out of character.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • There’s a solid stretch of episodes late in the season, but most of what comes before is pleasantly daffy yet forgettable.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
  • The two pieces of this film don’t always plug into one another so smoothly, but the dissonances still make for a daffy good time.
    — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The routine was a little bit daffy — a wuxia grandmaster with a hint of Lucille Ball.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Johansson, 39, thought Jost was a natural fit for the role of a daffy senator.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
  • Tom Hulce is daffy and delicious as the airhead prodigy Mozart, but few of us can identify with that kind of genius.
    — Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Tom Hulce is daffy and delicious as the airhead prodigy Mozart, but few of us can identify with that kind of genius.
    — EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The humor is not as daffy as in Edward Lear, and not as elaborate as in Lewis Carroll.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • That person — a sunny, daffy, confection of trashy Southern ridiculousness — is just not a mean person.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The Jets and their daffy owner, Woody Johnson, have a long history of dysfunction.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Nasim Pedrad shakes the cobwebs off the movie in a very funny sequence as a daffy real estate agent, giving everyone a lot to play against.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 2 July 2024
  • Mostly, the book serves to set them on a daffy quest through Vienna’s historical sites and libraries in order to find and destroy it.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But to a degree, the charmingly daffy anachronistic dialogue compensates for a plot that feels like a fait accompli.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Many of them are daffy, such as when Liz and Gabby begin competing for Alice’s attention.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Biden’s daffy proposal to rely on wind and solar power would gut our economy and make our energy supply weather-dependent.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Those include a daffy retriever, a headstrong capybara, a covetous lemur and a mysterious bird, as well as glimpses of more fantastical creatures.
    — Jack Smart, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Well, no show about an ex-con motel manager and her daffy family was likely to provide stiff competition for Steel’s glamorous romances.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • And then there’s the daffy spectacle of the films themselves, with plots beholden to almost avant-garde manipulations of time, space, and reality.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The show's daffy, big-hearted mother hen revealed to TV Insider that fans can expect a torrent of emotions this season.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • The songs on the album are tamped down and less flamboyantly daffy than his previous ones, presumably in performance of a gritty authenticity.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • Did Nordo’s screechingly daffy ex-wife (Opal Peachey), gadding about with an imaginary Chihuahua on a leash, off him with a butcher knife?
    — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
  • But there’s a tender vulnerability to his characters, and the daffy empathy that suffuses the writing is unique to Arbery.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
  • There’s lyricism and humor, too, especially from Medea’s tart servant Tita, and her daffy neighborhood friend, Louisa, who runs a churro cart.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2019
  • So beloved, in fact, that Jay Jackson, who portrayed the daffy, fan-favorite broadcaster Perd Hapley, still has fans shout out their favorite lines in passing.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Jan. 2026

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