goofball

Example Sentences

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The French have given us Delacroix, Debussy, Claire Denis and Simone de Beauvoir, along with some of the goofiest of goofball comedies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

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

Schoenberg comes across as either self-knowing prophet or goofball.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

Thankfully, the story arc is designed so that chaos keeps barging in, most delightfully in the form of a scene stealer named ParTeb, a goofball from Tunisia who presents as a saucy green alien.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

“My apologies,” Alex says, back to his goofball self, before dashing off.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée