tomfooleries
- plural of tomfoolery.
Example Sentences
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For 11 seasons, Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” has followed the triumphs, tragedies and tomfooleries of a group of Hollywood 20-something nobodies who became 30-something wannabes as the show became a reality TV juggernaut.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Such formal prose does not entirely squelch the sort of tomfooleries that Pynchon devotees so eagerly search out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or if he does answer this question, he won't be able to answer a hundred other tomfooleries.
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Rudder, Robert S.
He calls it a collection of crazy tricks or tomfooleries, galskaber, an expression which carries with it, in this sense, a confession of wilful paradox.
From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund
In January Cicero wrote to his friend Curio, and told him with disgust of the tomfooleries which were being carried on at the election of Quæstors.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
