skylarking

Example Sentences

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He chalked up the incident as “a case where the skylarking and tomfoolery in an employment context has gone awry.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

He told the court this was a case of "skylarking and tomfoolery" that had "gone awry".

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023

“Showers of rice” were thrown by “the jolly young people who had been skylarking the afternoon away in the White House,” the New York Times reported.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2022

The airmen on the court-martial, recalling other instances of dangerous skylarking around commercial aircraft,* apparently thought little of his defense, gave him the works.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the members of Parliament used to be skylarking about the city, playing tricks on one another, and humbugging the Castle people.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James