How to Use daft in a Sentence

daft

adjective

• Your idea seems a bit daft to me.
• She looked at us as if we'd gone daft.
• The Beatles went a bit daft in their quest to be the Band, even dressing the part for their final photo shoots.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
• Judging a stock by its name may not be a daft strategy after all.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2019
• Those in the first group sound like better people, but from a survival standpoint, they’re being daft.
  — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2015
• Matthew finds this all exciting and dangerous and daft.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Plus, the whole idea that the purpose of anti-monopoly law was to promote good monopolies was just … daft.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• That the Catholic Church should have acted as one of the brakes on that daft mysticism will perhaps perplex the Bill Mahers of the world, who understand so little about it.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 June 2019
• One of the telltale signs of white supremacy is the assertion that black people are too daft to comprehend symbols of white supremacy.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
• Almost everyone thinks this is daft but won’t say so, because the trans issue is the most pressing social-justice matter of the day.
  — James Lileks, National Review, 25 July 2019
• Which, of course, sounds daft since voters headed to the polls last Tuesday or headed to their mailboxes at some point to send in their absentee ballots.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2020
• Those daft suggestions got the cogs turning at 90min towers, wondering what else could, and perhaps should, be trademarked.
  — SI.com, 31 July 2019
• Williams isn’t spacey or unfocused, daft or delusional.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The cracking of the mystery, at the conclusion of Gemini, is daft and unsatisfying, but no matter.
  — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• What looks a daft choice to most economists made perfect sense to Richard Thaler, who on October 9th was awarded the Nobel prize for economics for his work in behavioural economics.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2017
• The wholesaler’s daft budget paints a grim picture, opening with a startling message from the agency’s soon-to-retire general manager, Sandy Kerl.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
• Someday soon — maybe in a year, maybe at the next Olympic trials — Americans will look back at last week's events and ask how any organization could have been so daft, so anachronistic, so wrongheaded.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• All of this is serious, and Public Health's suggestion to exercise social distancing seems very daft.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
• Does this praise even track for a generation raised on politicians who make hay exploiting daft cultural skirmishes?
  — Virginia Heffernan Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• But unlike the first film, Sonic 2 has a daft sense of fun that feels totally self-assured, a proper blend of kid-friendly gags and deeply dorky world building, complete with post-credit sequences and ever-expanding lore.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
• In most administrations, such daft behaviour would be a sacking offence.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Miller is spot on and delightfully funny as the seemingly daft court counselor Polonius, in many ways the antithesis of Hamlet’s absent father and uncaring uncle.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 4 June 2017
• This is actually the third iteration of Ford’s daft idea of distilling supercar performance into a work van.
  — Damon Lavrinc, WIRED, 15 July 2013
• If Bottoms has the framework (and bright mainstream appearance) of something off the Apatow family tree, its sensibility is closer to the daft zaniness of, say, Broken Lizard.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Mar. 2023
• That effort may seem daft, as such vibrations constitute heat, which obliterates delicate quantum states.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
• Yet just as Shoplifters conceded that its low-class antiheroes were actually horrible people, Parasite is fairly kind to the upper crust, portraying the rich as sweet if slightly daft people.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
• Nevertheless, emotion resonates through this delightful memoir, which offers a candid, humorous look inside the royal family and the daft world of the British aristocracy.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2020
• The internet has accelerated the spread of absurd theories, but these are a continuation of the sort of daft rumors that have always circulated in human communities.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024