foolery
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“Eventually after much tom foolery, the critter was captured and removed from the freeway,” the state police wrote on the agency’s Twitter page.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
It takes no less than 10 seconds for the foolery to start.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
“O, what a scene of foolery have I seen, Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2021
It was a simple piece of foolery but it had bothered Doc ever since.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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
These "fooleries," which Erasmus calls most gross and absurd, he says are practiced not merely by the vulgar, but by "such proficients in religion as one might well expect should have more wit."
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
Is it possible that he can thus suffer himself to be filled with these fooleries?
