foolery
noun
foolish action or conduct.
fooleries
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pluralof foolery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He complained about rampant "fooleries" like playing dice and cards and wearing masks.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2020
Jerry, who does the nightclub bit these days, may be recalling that atrocious bomb of 1963 when ABC invested many millions on a 40-part series of his fooleries, then canceled out after only 13.
From Time Magazine Archive
A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last?
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
It had been fine dinners, and suppers, and fooleries of all kinds for weeks, and more weeks, and money wasting away like water running into sand.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
All great philosophers are the same, and, when they have almost destroyed themselves with thinking, revive themselves by child's fooleries, as, e. g.,
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
