How to Use madcap in a Sentence

madcap

adjective
Definition of madcapnext
Synonyms for madcapnext
  • Echoing the film, the score is a madcap blend of tones.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But it’s the sort of inane piece of ephemera that can thrive in this madcap NFT world.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But don’t be fooled: Frost is more than the sum of his madcap fashion parts.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Amy wanted the show to have the speed of those old 40’s madcap comedy films.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • It’s the kind of over-the-top, madcap moment that’s made to be screeched about in group chats (or in my case, to colleagues on Slack).
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 30 July 2021
  • There were enough turns and straightaways on our quick jaunt to get some sense of how madcap bonkers the Sapphire is.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The story — in all its madcap, reckless zeal — comes first.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • With a few madcap ideas and a song in their heart, the Teen Titans head to Tinsel Town, certain to pull off their dream.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2018
  • With a few madcap ideas and a song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The madcap plot reads like Nancy Pelosi’s birthday wish.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • The Chiefs stuffed the 49ers on the ensuing possession, and Williams capped the madcap fourth quarter with a 38-yard touchdown run.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • In the days and weeks ahead, Rudy Giuliani and his colleagues will go on with their madcap legal efforts.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The scene is straight out of Boots Riley’s madcap moviemaking handbook.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • Then baseball can get on to promoting what should be a madcap race.
    — Dallas News, 17 June 2020
  • Lightning McQueen comes to mind, the wheels coming off after a madcap sprint to the finish line.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Despite being down to nine men, Ajax still pressed and a winner for the Dutch side would have been fitting for such a madcap game.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The madcap plot will keep readers in suspense until the final page.
    — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • However, a madcap final quarter of an hour saw the Sounders win by the odd goal in seven.
    — SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Arozarena’s madcap trip around the bases somehow matched the route the Rays took to victory in a game that featured three lead changes in the last four innings.
    — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
  • This sequence has the right mix of madcap fun, gentle satire, and earnestness, but the film’s other two chapters do not get the balance quite right.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Two live-action adaptations would be good in their own right, but in cartoon form, The Tick is a madcap circus.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 29 July 2022
  • The scene shot that day not only made it into the film, but was a jumping-off point for Emma Stone’s madcap performance.
    — Craigh Barboza, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In Schmigadoon, the comedy pros star as an on-the-rocks couple stuck in a madcap town out of a classic movie musical.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 June 2021
  • When the actors are in sync, the madcap humor of their absurd situations works very well.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022
  • Only a show as madcap and exciting as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend could be trusted to pull them all off.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Their shared love of ice cream would eventually become one of the plotlines of the madcap narrative of Fire Bones.
    — Lauren Smart, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Surely the 30 minutes to come will more closely resemble the madcap first five minutes of the game than the sometimes sloppy next 85.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • The duo of trios was slated to turn Starlet Room into some madcap version of an avant-garde folk-blues opium den in April, but a health scare derailed the plans.
    — Aaron Davis, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
  • And the best protection isn’t some madcap Rube Goldberg device.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 3 July 2019
  • Most enjoyed by ages 5 and older, and by those who love Scieszka’s madcap sense of humor.
    — oregonlive, 19 July 2023

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