tomfoolery
noun
foolish or silly behavior; tomfoolishness.
tomfooleries
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pluralof tomfoolery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
The old greffier, then, came to Paris for the purpose of witnessing one of the sad tomfooleries of that unhappy profligate, who in better times had been his son.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
I must keep out of these tomfooleries, though they have their uses.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
But, for all that, their brains wither under luxury, often by their own vices or tomfooleries, and mental barrenness is the result.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
