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
Even on the crest, as they were while clouting the Brooklyns six straight in a pair of recent series, the Giants were in no mood for skylarking.
From Time Magazine Archive
But later on they would expect to hold the entire troop rigidly to discipline, when the time for skylarking had gone by.
From Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol by Douglas, Alan
