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

What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them.

From Burning Daylight by London, Jack

"Don't do that tomfool thing again!" the old man shouted, and Johnny, clasping his recovered ball, grinned at him.

From An Old Chester Secret by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

"You'll admit it was a tomfool thing to do," he said.

From Greatheart by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

"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)