tomfool
Example Sentences
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Their own father, an amiable giant nearly seven foot tall, lacked the drive and ambition of his sons, and he refused to support this tomfool idea.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
I've been dared into a lot of tomfool things in my day.
From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Standish, Burt L.
“See here, young feller!” said Wisdom, “don’t go fill yourself up with tomfool notions ’bout lions and tigers waitin’ behind every bush.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
"Chief among them, why your tomfool brother—you call him your brother, I suppose?—brought me over here on a fool's errand."
From The Knave of Diamonds by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
O, that’s a different story!—What made you do it, you tomfool?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
