: marked by capriciousness, recklessness, or foolishness
madcap
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a madcap scheme to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel
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Clubs instead have to be judged by their actions and those madcap days of late June revealed anxieties ultimately born out of the penalties handed to Everton and Forest a few months earlier.
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Philip Buckingham, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw keeps the pace madcap and the dancing nonstop.
—Chad Jones, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025
The trip was one way of gaining an appreciation of just how much geography informs the film’s madcap humor and class commentary.
—Daniel Arnold, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Instead, director Sean Baker opts to make the scene madcap fun, leaving the deep well of fear and sadness for later, and allowing for 28 full minutes of Looney Tunes–esque pratfalling.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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Philip Buckingham, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw keeps the pace madcap and the dancing nonstop.
—Chad Jones, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025
The trip was one way of gaining an appreciation of just how much geography informs the film’s madcap humor and class commentary.
—Daniel Arnold, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Instead, director Sean Baker opts to make the scene madcap fun, leaving the deep well of fear and sadness for later, and allowing for 28 full minutes of Looney Tunes–esque pratfalling.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Madcap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madcap. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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