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
Playwright O'Neill, admittedly, was skylarking, insofar as it comports with the dignity of U. S. Playwright No. 1 to skylark, when he got period laughs out of his sentimental little comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Because if she's bent on skylarking, she'll leave the house before then," laughed the other.
From Hand and Ring by Green, Anna Katharine
