Sentence examples for was a doofus from inspiring English sources

I entered my research with preconceived notions (for example, that he was a doofus or a dolt and that she was a bubbleheaded shopaholic); yet the more I read about this pair, the more sympathetic I found them.

He was an apoplectic ship's captain in the Agatha Christie mystery "Murder Ahoy" (1964); he was a doofus of a secret agent in "The Spy With a Cold Nose" (1966); he was a bungling Scotland Yard inspector in "The Wrong Arm of the Law" (1963), with Peter Sellers; he was the amiably feckless King Pellinore in "Camelot" (1967).

"I was a doofus," she says.

"He's a doofus," Steve Fraser, the United States Greco-Roman wrestling coach, said with a laugh in an interview Monday.

(Is that a compliment?) Like Ana Grey, the F.B.I. agent who narrated Smith's superior first novel, "North of Montana," Cassidy is feisty; unlike Ana, she's a doofus.

I very nearly burned my cornea once because I was being a doofus.

Microsoft is less than outraged at these attacks, noting that you'd have to be a doofus to think that this was an XBL problem.

There is a reason that growing up can be tough – we all need that older brother who tells you that you are acting weird and being a doofus.

I want to think I'm hot stuff, but really I'm a doofus.

There's an unvoiced sentiment at the NYFF that because each film has been anointed and sanctioned, you're a doofus if you don't get it.

"To put a good comedic spin on Leslie's situation, the guy has to kind of be a doofus," Schur noted.