goofball
Example Sentences
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By the time the teen got home, she was embracing the spud as a kind of goofball Halloween badge of honor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Yet in “John Candy: A Life in Comedy,” Paul Myers makes the case that the actor, who died at 43 in 1994, was more than a good-natured goofball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Adam Sandler's much-loved goofball golfer Happy Gilmore is back on the greens for the first time in nearly three decades, so watch your heads.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
If you were hanging out and you didn’t know how to skate — goofball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Trish takes Muhammad in for the first time as he steps forward to shake hands with Malcolm, pumping enthusiastically like a goofball politician.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
