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Madcap
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
(a.) Wild; reckless.
(n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
(2) This madcap scheme is completely contrary to Medicare,” Abbott said at the time .
(3) Like American Hustle, another madcap 70s period piece which it somewhat resembles, it could be a shoo-in for major awards come 2015.
(4) For all that, the Help to Buy scheme vividly demonstrates the madcap world of British housing finance.
(5) He soon transferred to presenting and built up a reputation for a madcap approach that was somewhat constrained by BBC management.
(6) This is not a document full of whizzy graphics and madcap ideas.
(7) The government should pull the plug on these madcap 'offsetting' plans and get on with delivering its commitments to protect and boost wildlife through better planning."
(8) Even if you hate me, please don’t take Labour over the cliff edge | Tony Blair Read more Such is the public indifference to events beyond Britain’s borders that a politician can hold almost any madcap belief on foreign affairs and get away with it.
(9) Whether it’s the slapstick drag of Mrs Doubtfire, the frenetic voice of the Genie, or the thorax shaking screams from Good Morning, Vietnam there is so much comedy that we don’t need to remember the madcap exec who was Sarah Michelle Gellar’s father.
(10) Even then a madcap day was not done with folly and frolic as France, on their own line, 20 points down and with nothing at all to gain, tapped and ran.
(11) Near the Clignancourt flea market in northern Paris, it offers a madcap mix of DIY workshops, €12 dinners on global themes, screenings and cocktails beside the old train tracks.
(12) Nothing went our way, but now we have to raise our heads because life goes on.” “It was unbelievable, and incredible things happened which we will be unable to explain for the rest of our lives,” said Manchester City’s Fernandinho, a member of the two-man midfield that had been so horribly outnumbered and overrun during that madcap first period.
(13) So maybe it is appropriate that the madcap black crime comedy American Hustle has emerged as the big winner of the Globes with its three awards: for best comedy or musical, and best actress and best supporting actress (comedy or musical) for Amy Adams and the all-conquering Jennifer Lawrence.
(14) At the photo shoot for this piece she gamely tries on outfit after outfit of streetwear, looking like a small but ferocious superhero, the type of no-nonsense heroine who’s as at home with a snappy retort as a swift roundhouse kick, and the perfect companion for Capaldi’s madcap incarnation of the Doctor.
(15) In the opera categories the English National Opera won best new opera production for Handel's Partenope, the madcap cross-dressing comedy of errors transposed from ancient Naples to the roaring 20s.
(16) Meanwhile Lord Adonis has called for the House of Lords to be moved "up north" , presumably to give custom to his other madcap idea, that £50bn be spent on HS2 .
(17) Weis also discusses whether, in their “madcap twenties”, Shakespeare and the more overtly gay Christopher Marlowe had an affair.
(18) Some competitors had travelled from Spain, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands to take part in the series of madcap races.
(19) The show's chaos, irreverence and broad wit would be a natural fit for Corden, whose equally madcap turn in One Man, Two Guvnors remains one of his most beloved roles.
(20) However, Bolton, despite losing their past five away league matches, arrived intent on attacking rather than containing and that made for an open, madcap contest.