How To Use Daft In A Sentence
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James arrived in midafternoon with former teammate Damon Jones.
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And daft ideas and practices receive no opposition.
Times, Sunday Times
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For several weeks the back of my brain was busy contemplating this daft question, after disassembling the word painstaking in my head.
Archive 2006-01-01
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The daft governor of Massachusetts, Mitch Romney, apparently is still thinking that the wingnuts will somehow allow a northeasterner to be a serious presidential candidate so he completely wimped out (and sucked up to the wingnuts) by leaving it to his spokesman.
07/14/2005
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No daft rules corralling them into one area.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's that time of year when gimmicky wines with daft labels burst upon us in the supermarkets.
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I look at my big daft name on the back wall and nervously come down the stairs.
The Sun
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Circnlum 6f in crena nervus adaftus habet. bQuas animus mifit, voiitant 9 feriuntque fa - gittse,
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum
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Fans of the strange film will stick! upon dev otees of robotic dance song duo Daft Punk (who will be making the small arrange of vague appearance) in flocking to the motion picture Dec 2010 opening.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Think again, you daft 'aporth.
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It seems daft to me that anyone who so much as flirts with the idea of a career in education would fail to remember what they know about how teenagers behave.
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Meh… it's a daft question which doesn't deserve a serious answer.
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So I caught one of the hands that were lying limply on the coverlet, bent forward and said softly, reprovingly: "You silly young muggins, why did you go and do a daft thing like that?
Fear is the Key
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The sting from one of these daft-looking things will killyou in less than three minutes andthey have been responsible for almost six thousand human fatalities since 1954.
Britney Spears Saves Couple From Death Or Discomfort
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"It's not Muppets' songs we're after, y'daft ha'p'orth," he yelled, "It's the World Cup!"
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The arrest toll reached 563 by midafternoon, with 105 people charged.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this manliness and yet we manage to come up with the daft idea of a leaf blower.
The Sun
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It was a pretty daft idea anyway.
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The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could spend hours just staring into the mirror, pulling daft faces.
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The daft thing about how the bBC protects muslims and the like by keeping stum is in doing so they give credence to the likes of the BNP.
I knew I would be writing this post.
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To pretend otherwise and act all hurt is plain daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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They provide the yardstick, while Australia will make their current ranking of sixth look daft before the year is out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Good night to you, Sir Churchman; I'm in nae swither whether I would change places wi 'ye the night, but weemen are daft craturs, poor things, and I've had my day.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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If any under-pressure manager is about to do anything as photogenically daft as Phil Brown's al fresco half-time team talk, your money would be on Holloway rather than Di Matteo.
West Brom do not look like yoyos now Roberto Di Matteo has added steel
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I'll smile quietly to myself at his funeral today when I recall some of our dafter escapades.
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But the bulls say that conventional measures are daft in this era of breathtakingly low bond yields.
Times, Sunday Times
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No point having the dirtiest car in Lincolnshire if you go doing daft things like cleaning it.
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It is daft only because the politicians, their acolytes and braindead supporters will label it daft.
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I ask her if she smokes, a daft question given that this is a tobacconist, but you have to start somewhere.
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And he would rather claver with a daft quean they call Diana
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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So because my brain is really in holiday mode and I'm just rolling my arm over creating a new poll, you daft bints who make new years resolutions can vote in the 2005 resolutions poll.
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But his quango is sure to spark uproar with its daft demands today.
The Sun
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All fun: but what the play really needs to cover its flaws is to become a daft musical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forgive me if I sound daft, but I can't see a link between the two subjects.
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Avoid caffeine from midafternoon and have chamomile tea before bed.
The Sun
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Dithering like a nerk, I put my satchel down with some daft idea of climbing down, but finally thought better of things.
The Vatican Rip
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Daft old bat. What's she keeping all that cash in the house for?
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It was a pretty daft idea anyway.
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He's richt sensible an 'eident whiles; but when the fey blude gets intil his heid, an' he gets into the middle o 'ony rig, he's juist as daft as the rochest haflin that ever fee'd.
My Man Sandy
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"No, you daft ha'porth. Ms Herron said the therapy rakes up a lot of old stuff, things you thought you'd forgotten about, or you'd rather not face."
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Excuse me while I dive back into my piles of daft statistics.
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They all seemed to be far more caught up in this daft carnival idea, and more recently, all agog at Flynn Malone's steam-driven inheritance.
TICKLED PINK
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At this stage of the campaign, removing your leading scorer is just plain daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Who thought it was a good idea to ask such a daft question in the first place?
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The daft young lads should all be paiked.
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I've been daft about cricket since I was young, and I was part of a successful squad until I was forced to pack it in at 26 when I tore my cartilage and ruptured my knee ligaments.
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We are looked upon quite benevolently, and we are quite an old fashioned company - we always pay our bills within a few days, but we are not daft!
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Theft of motor vehicles, robbery, drink-driving – daft little things, but it sticks with you," he says.
Britain's not working
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But woman may hear it and lay it up in her soul and bide at hame, while a man, if he get but a glisk of it in his fool's heart, must needs up and awa 'to the warld's end on some daft-like ploy.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane?
Lords of the North
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It's just too messy, too faffy and too daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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The funny thing is that both of those daft ideas have come to life.
The Sun
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Much of the population is daft about dogs and there are not many whippets here so people stop us in the street to look at them.
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They'd have quickly found perhaps the daftest bikeway in Britain.
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And the latest claim – that kiss-and-tell stories are somehow supporting feminism by exposing rich and famous men – is just too daft for words.
Letters to MediaGuardian
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Daft, because who gives a damn about sweating in the midst of passion?
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Think again, you daft 'aporth.
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Mario was a dafty, a pure numpty, and he didn't have a clue what he was doing.
Riding the tube to work
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It may be faid, in general, that all God's con - daft towards Abraham was kind and benevolent; but there were fome particular ihftances of his con* duiSl, which wei-e more peculiarly expreffive of friendfhip, and which defervc to be diftindly men - tioned.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects
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He's richt sensible an 'eident whiles; but when the fey blude gets intil his heid, an' he gets into the middle o 'ony rig, he's juist as daft as the rochest haflin that ever fee'd.
My Man Sandy
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Her daft garb was so uncomfortable it brought on the early stages of the potentially deadly deep vein thrombosis.
The Sun
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What can be "proven" is always a different matter, but please ... it's utterly daft to think that this is just an isolated ethical "lapse" involving a dozen Interior Dept Bushies in two offices.
Archive 2008-09-01
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But the bulls say that conventional measures are daft in this era of breathtakingly low bond yields.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to admit, with a heavy heart, that when I originally read about the new villains, I thought they sounded asinine, with daft names and even dafter looks.
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Shadows and negative space create daft hallows of his beautiful shapes, in her eyes, there were no shapes as reticent and mature as the ones that outlined cheekbones, eye sockets and the willowed depth bellow his chin.
Whispering to the Creature, “You are the Reason the World Is…”
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There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg - foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose.
Catriona
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And an unco fright ye gae me when ye cam ahint and took a grip o 'me," said Jenny, giving him a sly twitch with her finger and her thumb -- "if ye hadna been an auld acquaintance, ye daft gomeril" --
Old Mortality, Complete
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This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
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Who was so daft as to think it was about anything else?
Times, Sunday Times
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He's a nice enough boy, but he's as daft as a brush.
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This site is tasteless, pointless, daft, offensive - and worth checking out.
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As an element of deterrence, on the other hand, the threat to kill ten of theirs for every minor inconvenience to one of ours seems useful and proper, since deterrence is supposed to be a little daft. digamma
The Damsel Effect
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He and his ilk are constantly pilloried for their behaviour and slammed for showing other daft wee laddies a poor example.
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As for checkes or reuilings, was to them muske and honie, and slouenly vndaftinesse, a great comelinesse.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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They need to get the director of that one Weezer video to make the perfect movie for all of you daft addle-pated fuck-bubbles.
Nu Image Meeting With Slew of Directors For Conan Reboot, Including Brett Ratner | /Film
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I agreed to meet him midafternoon a couple of days later.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're absolutely ready to be silly and wear extremely daft things.
The Sun
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Her daft garb was so uncomfortable it brought on the early stages of the potentially deadly deep vein thrombosis.
The Sun
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Don't get into obeying imaginary voices in your head or anything daft like that.
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‘Just Fifish,’ replied Peter; ‘wowf — a wee bit by the East Nook or sae; it’s a common case — the ae half of the warld thinks the tither daft.
Redgauntlet
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It sounds same-old-same-old, but let me assure you that Mancini crams as much daft humour and sick jokes in as possible.
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To pretend otherwise and act all hurt is plain daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall.
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It seemed a daft idea and the film did indifferent business at the box office.
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The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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In midafternoon regimental and division commanders powwowed with Byrne and his company captains alongside his Humvee in the desert.
Five Days in Fallujah
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The title track tries to deflate its portentous musical backing of crashing cymbals and thunderous pianos with daft lyrics about needing a new eiderdown and some binoculars.
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THIS is not the work of a band but rather a solo artist with a daft stage name.
The Sun
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Gangsta culture may look glamorous to some but transport it to the Midlands and it looks daft.
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When is he going to realise he looks a bit daft?
The Sun
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Whether you have found a cure for cancer or you're just a daft old bird who can't drive makes no difference, as long as people know your face.
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He had written that he was struggling to deal with his feelings and felt daft even expressing them.
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Well, as I was saying, it was a brave notion of the king to put the loyalty of his land to the test, that the daft folk might be dismayed, and that the clanjamphrey might be tumbled down before their betters, like windle-straes in a hurricane: -- and so they were.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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What's yon daft thingamy aboot?" thought Gubblum.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
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All the pick-ups you've mentioned are daft as a brush.
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An obvious question - possibly a daft one - but is there a fire risk?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was heroically daft and had the crowd laughing happily in the sunshine.
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Victoria Daft and Liars Larson and Rash Lamebrain are interchangeable -- anger-schtick, cross-addressing, anti-social haters.
How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Now with his daft prison ideas he is worse than a menace.
The Sun
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Make daft predictions that are as much guesswork as logic... so here goes.
The Sun
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The kagu is a white bird with a daft great crest on its head.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's as daft as a brush, honestly she is.
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The story is totally daft and has plot holes you can drive a bus through.
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The decision is just plain daft.
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But the imaginative manner in which our wealth is frittered away in daft schemes displays a special dedication for which British officialdom is renowned.
Times, Sunday Times
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But ya jest look 'ere, mum, what's a man to du wi' a daft thingamy like _that_, as caan't tëak a plain order, and spiles a poor man's business as caan't help hissel '?'
Robert Elsmere
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That is not as daft as it sounds after the Italian masterminded this dazzling victory.
The Sun
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But daft names aside, it's an absolute belter.
The Sun
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About midafternoon, the warriors opened an attack on the left front of the army line.
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I'd probably have some more crisps or chocolate midafternoon.
The Sun
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There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at leg-foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other side, and hold a nose.
David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And Fran
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It may well be that 12 years of philosophy and prison have made me daft or corrupt or both, but after I have given my paper I have lunch with Jason and he tells me that it was a bit like Adorno, whom I haven't read but he has, and then he explains to me Hobbes's notion of diffidence and how he is applying it to modern ideas in penology.
A key to happiness for prisoners with little future
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But the left-hander was caught at long-off from the first ball after midafternoon drinks.
The Sun
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In fact I could see that putting an orange in the middle of something is actually plain daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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This fifth series of the sketch show remains ingeniously daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is supposed to be the big, golden-era throwback drama to remind us that TV can be about more than singing competitions featuring twerps in daft haircuts and distressed jeans.
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The latter is a daft thing to say.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shocks aren't shocking, the spooks aren't spooky and any whispers of fear are swamped by the daftness of the plot.
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It's time to stop being daft about Christmas.
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That is not as daft as it sounds after the Italian masterminded this dazzling victory.
The Sun
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The film, I suppose, deserves some marks for the unflagging manner in which this slapstick is played, but I'm afraid there were times when I thought it was just plain daft, rather than funny.
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It's three in the morning, and I'm smoking myself silly, drinking myself daft to try and get arseholed so I can get to sleep.
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`Daft, isn't it, but who wanted oil when the engines were fired with coal and needed water to keep the steam up ?
HIGH STAND
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The point of Finkelstien bringing this to the attention of The Times readerproloteriat was to hopefully empathize with the inanity of certain daft policing strategies, dreamed up by promotion hungry cretins.
Welcome ‘Times’ Readers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Your daft babbling is just what is needed to keep things from being, you know, interesting.
Think Progress » Mitt Romney Claims That President Obama’s Words ‘Support’ 911 Truthers Abroad
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The conversation deteriorated into calling each other daft names and I moved to storm out of his office with one final remark.
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Completely daft suggestions will be ignored, so no suggestions of 'antidisestablishmentarianism' along with a title of 'sex lives of cornflakes.'
Pen-Elayne on the Web
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"It's not Muppets' songs we're after, y'daft ha'p'orth," he yelled, "It's the World Cup!"
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A midafternoon chocolate bar is essential - just this once - for energy levels.
Times, Sunday Times
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Likewise, it's quite futile to search for daftodi (a plant of the mountains) in a swamp or cowbane in the desert.
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I'm not a daft wee laddie, and I know that happens, but it doesn't normally happen quite so blatantly, so I was annoyed and angry.
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I'VE built a career around dressing up in daft costumes.
The Sun
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Feeling for his girlfriend, that daft ha'p'orth Steve has a plan to cheer her up.
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It was a pretty daft idea anyway.
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IT'S hard for a bloke to carry a small dog around without looking a bit daft.
The Sun
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His action was instinctive; it was also utterly daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's got a hare-brained/crazy/daft scheme for getting rich before he's 20.
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The scripts are then filmed and all the would-be comics are presented with a Dafta - Colin's version of the drama award, the Bafta.
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Out of this daft bunfight, Strauss and his collaborator Hoffmansthal shaped a masterpiece.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
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As an element of deterrence, on the other hand, the threat to kill ten of theirs for every minor inconvenience to one of ours seems useful and proper, since deterrence is supposed to be a little daft. digamma
The Damsel Effect
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There's no way of supping a full latte without getting a foamy moustache on your upper lip and it looks as daft on a power person as it does on an old grey man.
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All this manliness and yet we manage to come up with the daft idea of a leaf blower.
The Sun
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Well, half-a-kilo lane sounds so daft!
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MoD chiefs say fake fur reacts badly to rain and makes soldiers look daft.
The Sun
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In fact, I became a lot dafter (as did my husband) and we like doing silly things with our grandsons.
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A friend visited and delivered three bags of supermarket shopping in midafternoon.
The Sun
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They were patient and polite, but they obviously wondered why I was asking such a daft question.
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Meanwhile, he unwrapped the handkerchief from his hand, trying to rub feeling back into his numbed fingers, and waiting for the tracker to give him a sightline, when, with no more fanfare than a dust mote entering a Victorian drawing room on a ray of midafternoon sunlight, the bull was suddenly upon him.
Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing
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My head's still spinning and I don't want to make myself look daft so I'm keeping schtum.
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He's got a hare-brained/crazy/daft scheme for getting rich before he's 20.
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Although nicknamed ‘Dafty’ by his schoolfellows at Edinburgh Academy, he had a fertile and brilliant mind.
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This is an interesting argument – some might call it daft – but it is about to be road-tested in the theatre of major championship golf by the two best players in the world, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald.
Luke Donald and Lee Westwood get serious about relaxation for US PGA
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This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
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It occurred to me then that an RSS-only publishing tool, though it may seem daft to some now, could become an ideal publishing platform for many purposes where immediacy is all that matters.
World Live Web to eclipse World Wide Web?
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This article is daft and not just for its grating use of the non-word "surveil".
The Guardian World News
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MoD chiefs say fake fur reacts badly to rain and makes soldiers look daft.
The Sun
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Early morning or midafternoon tee times are advised.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore a pale green business shirt, and his shave was absolutely perfect, even as midafternoon came and went.
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I felt an urge in recent weeks to e-mail the journalist and tell him what a good job he was doing, but felt a bit daft e-mailing a total stranger.
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Rhodry laughed as hard as if the world were one daft jest.
A Time of War
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`Daft, isn't it, but who wanted oil when the engines were fired with coal and needed water to keep the steam up ?
HIGH STAND
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It's silly and patronising and, anyway, even the most witless bores in society have long since moved on to grinningly saying "simples" in a daft foreign accent at the end of their sentences.
You're the prime minister, Cameron. Please stop behaving like the David Brent of British politics | Sam Delaney
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Daft old bat. What's she keeping all that cash in the house for?
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There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg-foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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He and his ilk are constantly pilloried for their behaviour and slammed for showing other daft wee laddies a poor example.
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Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall.
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This daft policy will not bring elephants back to life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Feeling for his girlfriend, that daft ha'p'orth Steve has a plan to cheer her up.
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Very little in business is easy, and anyone looking for an easy option would be daft to make exporting their first choice.
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The daft thing was there was a rose on her pillow.
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To pretend otherwise and act all hurt is plain daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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The world breathed a sigh of relief and gave him a rather daft Nobel prize.
Times, Sunday Times
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How could such a clever man be so daft that he did not anticipate the most obvious questions?
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Tristan Parkes's daft singalong songs and Rosie Chambers' woodland set of wood chippings, floorboards and furniture entwined in flora add to the pleasure of Lane and Wass's madly comic double act.
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By midafternoon they had reached the summit of the first range of mountains, and stopped to rest the horses.
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We laugh at the daft things he did.
The Sun
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Alix suggests that "Kirsty Wark ... asked some fairly daft and muddled questions" in that Newsnight interview, whereas I reckoned she was more or less avoiding involuntary micturition in her big leather chair with beside-herself laughter at his utterly pathetic know-nothing feebleness.
Alix Mortimer: Suggesting Osborne Not Up To Job
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We do, however, recall a daft corny film where a ridiculous hairy Michael J. Fox who looked more like Teen Ape slam dunked a basketball a few times.
Teen Wolf to become a TV series : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me, a very close second to Willow to be quite honest.
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To me it's just four middle-aged birds wearing daft clobber and moaning about men.
The Sun
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But; ya jest look 'ere, mum, what's a man to du wi' a daft thingamy like _that_, as caan't teak a plain order, and spiles a poor man's business as caan't help hissel '?'
Robert Elsmere
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My dear old mother went as daft as a brush in her final years.
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And the whole Thotsakan brouhaha looks daft from a Western perspective, but a lot of people here in Thailand do take this sort of thing very seriously.
The Wrath of Khon
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The storylines are a bit daft but transport you to another world.
The Sun
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Rhodry laughed as hard as if the world were one daft jest.
A Time of War
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So, all in all, with my daily pill, I'm happy without being daft, content without being bovine.
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But daft names aside, it's an absolute belter.
The Sun
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When the daft bogger staggers into the house he cops his missis in bed with you-know-who.
THE OPEN DOOR
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Her daft garb was so uncomfortable it brought on the early stages of the potentially deadly deep vein thrombosis.
The Sun
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That daft, cheery, fearless gesture people make before a fun run or a bungee jump.
Times, Sunday Times
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A stream of people I half-knew kept coming up to tell me how daft I looked.
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In fact we are double daft because we've just held two little soirées - one for family and one for colleagues and friends.
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It was a bit daft.
Times, Sunday Times
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a kind of sib, I'm thinkin '-- an' thae Merry Men, the daft callants, blawin 'and lauchin', and puir souls in the deid thraws warstlin 'the leelang nicht wi' their bit ships -- weel, it comes ower me like a glamour.
Merry Men
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They've fair paiked the daftie black and blue.
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It was midafternoon, the air blighted of moisture; heat hazes wavered over the placid waters of the Yamuna, and Jai Singh sat under the shade of the tamarind at the very edge of his property, the farman on his lap.
Shadow Princess
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IT'S hard for a bloke to carry a small dog around without looking a bit daft.
The Sun
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Without this unspoken accord, the entire thing is rather daft.
Times, Sunday Times