What's the difference between daft and deft?

Daft


Definition:

  • (a.) Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.
  • (a.) Gay; playful; frolicsome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (2) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
  • (3) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
  • (4) Osborne and Alistair Darling would be daft to rule out a 20% VAT band; don't expect them to admit as much this side of polling day.
  • (5) • Sign up for our Money Talks email , which each week features a daft deal and some real offers
  • (6) The comedian Stephen Mangan called Cameron’s warning “panicky” and “daft”, while another comedian, Vikki Stone, shared a picture of herself hiding in the shed with a colander on her head and said: “Dear David Cameron I’m frightened.
  • (7) Daft Punk will make their first televised performance since 2008 , playing with artists including Stevie Wonder and Get Lucky collaborators Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
  • (8) It would be unfair – daft, even, and demeaning to the winner – to suggest Murray threw the match away after coming back from 2-5 in the fifth set and failing to convert any of three break points that would have left him serving for the match.
  • (9) I wanted to make something that, daft as it is, you could see it loads of times and spot something new each time.
  • (10) The clue is in the title: it takes a lot of work and rehearsal for a comedian to appear spontaneous, and this is a daft, enjoyable and impressively polished show from a comic with a natural flair for the absurd.
  • (11) Nile says: “The robots had an amazing vision!” Nile Rodgers accepts Daft Punk's International Group Award.
  • (12) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
  • (13) He also helpfully presented the former prime minister with a way the policy could be made less daft.
  • (14) The more that other people sounded like Daft Punk, the harder it become for Daft Punk to do something new.
  • (15) Frankly, if anyone is daft enough to spend £1,000 on a handbag, it’s no skin off anyone else’s nose.
  • (16) At this perilous juncture, there's not much to be gained from saying that monetary union was always a daft idea.
  • (17) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
  • (18) Richard Curtis's film is a good-natured fantasy romance of such utterable daftness that it's impossible to dislike.
  • (19) Cycling into the hinterland of a foreign city with a reputation for violence and where few people speak English might sound like a daft idea, but for anyone remotely interested in cycling this is an unmissable experience – perhaps the world's greatest city bike ride.
  • (20) So, let's go back to the original question: is the man in charge of making these changes a bit daft?

Deft


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Deft and perceptive, with the ability to contribute his share of goals, Eriksen made his Eredivisie debut at 17 and received his first senior cap at 18, making him the country's youngest international since Michael Laudrup.
  • (2) All you do is deftly lie with your body or with your words.
  • (3) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (4) It is based on the comparison of an aerobic plate count (APC) with a count obtained using the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (5) The deft and defs reductions ranged from 60 to 6.5 per cent and 58.8 to 9.6 per cent respectively, and equivalent DMFT and DMFS reductions ranged from 11.1 to 0 per cent, and 33.3 to 16.7 per cent respectively.
  • (6) We will need some deft maneuvering, and perhaps some out-of-the-box thinking.
  • (7) • Sir George Young, attends cabinet as leader of the House of Commons, 71, has been widely praised for his deft handling of MPs across the chamber.
  • (8) And yet with a deftness of touch, Uni Lad – a website for "LADS" – exposed these stereotypes to their bare essentials.
  • (9) A plot of decayed, extracted, and filled teeth (deft) vs. age resulted in a bell-shaped curve that was shifted to the right by 2.5 years for malnourished groups, compared with normal children (p less than 0.01).
  • (10) I lifted my patient's eyelid to check she was dead – and her eyeball came out Read more After some deft manoeuvring with the forceps and a prophylactic course of antibiotics, the offending item was deposited in the medical waste bin.
  • (11) In fact, the first things that strike you about the album are the soulful vocals of Sampha – whose voice does "hurt" better than a wounded puppy – and its deft, garage-inspired rhythms.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Silva had been identified, along with Agüero, as City’s main threat by Leonid Slutsky, the CSKA manager, and it was the Spaniard who slipped the ball through deftly for Dzeko to beat the offside trap.
  • (13) With such a magnificently deft operator, it’s hard to work out what’s really going on behind the smile.
  • (14) The results showed a mean DEFT (decayed, extracted and filled teeth) score of 3.34 for four to six year old children, a mean DEFT of 3.26 for seven to nine year olds and a mean DMFT (decayed, missing and filled permanent teeth) of 5.03 for 10 to 12 year olds.
  • (15) It was a deft move on the part of Putin to build trust.” What was also significant was who was in the room – or rather who wasn’t.
  • (16) 106 samples of chilled, cured canned hams and shoulders have been examined with a traditional plate count technique and with the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (17) Its presence at the sector's policy high table this week is a timely reminder of just how deftly the collapse was dealt with, largely by the sector itself, little more than 12 months ago.
  • (18) Lowell Libson, a member of the export review committee that advises the government on works of art, said: "This portrait is a profoundly personal and impressive demonstration of Van Dyck's confidence as a painter and with his deft manipulation of paint he created the illusion that the viewer is encountering the subject directly.
  • (19) The average baseline D3MFT scores of the 7-, 8- and -9-yr-old urban and rural children were 0.27, 0.33, 0.35 and 0.04, 0.23 and 0.23, respectively; the average deft values were 2.9, 2.4, 2.6 and 1.4, 1.9 and 1.4.
  • (20) Even before her deft performance in the early evening Republican presidential debate last week, Carly Fiorina was being heralded as the candidate who could take on Hillary Clinton .