Sentence examples for goofball from inspiring English sources

'goofball' is a valid word in written English
You can use it when referring to an amusingly silly or eccentric person. Example: "My neighbor is such a goofball; he wears mismatched shoes every day!"

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goofball

noun

A foolish or silly person.

  • If that goofball would put half the effort into her studies as she does into her juggling, she might do very well.

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Cute! See, Fey's Palin impression was a big hit for the show back in 2008, got marvellous ratings, and will long be remembered as a seminal SNL moment – but not, as one might think, because Sarah Palin was some wacky, harmless goofball destined to be a delightful footnote in the annals of election history.

The whole point of the goofball before Green Wing was that he was asexual, he was the subplot, the light relief, the man from whom the portent and gravity and stress associated with testosterone had been removed.

For Marco Rubio, the Republican senator who has been trying to craft a bipartisan immigration-reform bill, the idea that a goofball lone-wolf terrorist attack by a frustrated Chechen boxer and his younger brother could torpedo his efforts must sound bizarre.And yet it's not entirely impossible, for two reasons.

What he said was that "the Romans viewed Jesus as just some goofball that got nailed to the cross".

However, he did not refer to Jesus as "just some goofball that got nailed to the cross".

At one point in the campaign, he referred to Jesus as "just some goofball that got nailed to the cross".

He seems to find his ideal when he glimpses Cindy visiting her grandmother, and overcomes her resistance when they meet on a bus, charming her with his garrulous goofball act.

An unpredictable 20-year-old prone to depression, his public persona somehow flitters between unstable sociopath and loveable goofball.

She says: "People assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour, when actually, sometimes I'm just a goofball".

I feel lucky when I think about my little fatso goofball self".

She voiced one of the main characters, Vanellope von Schweetz, in the computer-animated children's film Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and played a prostitute waiting to consummate her relationship with her fiancé until they marry in Seth MacFarlane's goofball comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).

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