: 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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Image ‘One of Them Days’ Keke Palmer and SZA star as roommates on a madcap quest to get enough cash to pay their rent.
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The New York Times, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Palmer plays Dreux, a Los Angeles waitress who, when her artist roommate Alyssa (SZA) gives their rent money to an untrustworthy boyfriend, Keshawn (Joshua David Neal), goes on a madcap, day-long odyssey to raise the money before they’re evicted.
—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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The New York Times, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Palmer plays Dreux, a Los Angeles waitress who, when her artist roommate Alyssa (SZA) gives their rent money to an untrustworthy boyfriend, Keshawn (Joshua David Neal), goes on a madcap, day-long odyssey to raise the money before they’re evicted.
—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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“Madcap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madcap. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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