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
“We don’t tolerate any foolery, because this is something we want to see succeed,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2019
True enough, but no excuse for a novelist, or his editor, failing to tone down the foolery.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2015
“Even foolery is dangerous,” said Jasper, “in the hands of a fool.”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Meanwhile George IV. was going through the fatiguing fooleries which he had insisted upon reviving for his own glorification.
From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Mrs Goddard Orpen
In other respects, too, her present life was altogether to her mind: she had her separate chamber; was constantly beside the countess, entertaining her with fooleries, and daily received some present for her pains.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
