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How to use daft in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective

Daft means foolish, silly, stupid. Example: “Talk about moonbeams from cucumbers; the Taipings were even dafter than that.”

Examples of daft by meaning

adjectiveFoolish, silly, stupid.

  • a daft idea
  • Talk about moonbeams from cucumbers; the Taipings were even dafter than that.1985, George MacDonald Fraser, chapter 1, in Flashman and the Dragon: From the Flashman Papers, 1860, London: Collins Harvill, →ISBN...
  • You haven't exactly been playing the master tactician through all this, but that seems the daftest course you could possibly have taken.1990, Iain Pears, The Raphael Affair, London: Gollancz, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Harper, 2014, →ISBN, page 22

More sentences with daft

  • 'Not that daft if it stops their bommie getting nicked.' Jack winked at Terry.2014, Trevor Hoyle, Down the Figure 7, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry bommie
  • They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third.2012 December 21, George Monbiot, “Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 24. From the entry amusing
  • I thought at the time that they must be deaf or daft in Sheffield.2011 September 15, Martyn Johnson, What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry teacake
  • Just a daft story from a time when folk didn't know any better."2002, Mark Morris, The Lonely Places. From the entry more like
  • 'You daft great gowk, puttin' yerself in the way of harm after all this time out of a war.'2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303. From the entry yerself
  • I never heard of anything so daft in my life.2010, Maggie Barbara Gale, John F. Deeney, Dan Rebellato, The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary…. From the entry do it
  • To his contemporaries, his desperation seemed like a search for the "God particle," something seen as daft, even obstructionist.2010, Mu Soeng, The Heart of the Universe: Exploring the Heart Sutra, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry God particle
  • It has to be pumped up here yer daft ’apeth.2003, Chris Brown, Of Ghosts and Faeries - A Firefighter's Tale, WritersPrintShop 2004, page 61. From the entry apeth
  • Where were Secretaries James and Foster and Senator Joseph, those dear daft numina who’d mothered over Oedipa’s so temperate youth?1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry numen
  • Don't you think you must have looked proper daft?1964, Saint Andrew Society (Glasgow, Scotland), The Scots magazine: Volume 82. From the entry proper
  • I am a northerner and if any daft apeth with a cob on wants to mither me about my accent, they can do one.2019 March 20, Daniel Lavelle, The Guardian. From the entry do one
  • And just as Rockism could be negated, so too could a Popism made of insipid disco pop, easy-listening reggae and increasingly daft glam rock.2017, Ben Highmore, Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics, page 122. From the entry popism
  • The most famous of all Nizzards also allowed himself to become involved in a daft plot with an English adventurer called Laurence Oliphant.2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 191. From the entry Nissard
  • I have nothing against the girl (other than the fact she's a tab!), but it does strike me as a little daft!!2002 March 29, Caroline Smith, “Re: Lifejackets thread returns... [was Re: Boat Race]”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet). From the entry tab
  • Peter Gibson, of Keep Britain Tidy, said: “in a world of daft pranks, we want littering to be that tumbleweed moment, the joke that falls flat on its face.”2005 December 19, Robert Stansfield, “Gimp ad to shame litter louts”, in The Mirror, London, England. From the entry tumbleweed moment
  • It just means that some daft wee hairy that gets knocked up the duff has tae get oan the bus tae Carlisle tae get cleaned oot.1998, Irvine Welsh, Filth, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry up the duff
  • Certain it is that if he had been daft before, he now ran wild in his pranks, and an evil report of him was in every mouth.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry report

Meaning of daft

  1. adjective Foolish, silly, stupid.
  2. adjective Crazy, insane, mad.
  3. adjective Gentle, meek, mild.

Full definition of daft

Questions about daft in a sentence

How do you use daft in a sentence?
Daft is used as an adjective. For example: “Talk about moonbeams from cucumbers; the Taipings were even dafter than that.”
What is a short sentence with daft?
“a daft idea”
What does daft mean?
Daft means foolish, silly, stupid.

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