adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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But nothing is as daft as the way they're wasting Steve McFadden.
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I don't think that kid's as daft as he makes out.
so
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It rises with the tide, only no one's so daft as to stay and see how high.
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Well, half-a-kilo lane sounds so daft !
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I now ask myself how I could have been so daft .
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This is what made the Donovan libel action so daft .
■ NOUN
thing
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But it was a daft thing to ask, wasn't it?
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The daft thing was there was a rose on her pillow.
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The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we'd been working.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't be daft ! Of course you're not too old to go clubbing.
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Is this another of your daft ideas?
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She's as daft as a brush, honestly she is.
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Well, what's the daftest thing you've ever done at work?
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What a daft thing to say!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it's particularly daft when the firm itself has gone bust.
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Before, I'd felt little resentment and shrugged off being labelled daft or deaf, never needing to cry in front of them.
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But it was a daft thing to ask, wasn't it?
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But she had some daft ideas about this place.
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Excuse me while I dive back into my piles of daft statistics.
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It's the hangover from twenty-four hours of daft behaviour.
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It rises with the tide, only no one's so daft as to stay and see how high.
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Would he really countenance such a daft proposal?