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

Oh, you needn't ask me to believe that tomfool tale, old chap!

From The Keeper of the Door by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

I've been dared into a lot of tomfool things in my day.

From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Standish, Burt L.

"Milly Boon is the woman I'm aiming at, and it may or may not interest you to larn that she loves you better than anything on earth—you—you she loves, you gert tomfool!"

From The Torch and Other Tales by Phillpotts, Eden

"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)