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

"Go and fetch the money and the tomfool paint-box thing that you say he had it in."

From Carrots: Just a Little Boy by Molesworth, Mrs.

Laws-a-massy, ye tomfool," Justus cried, "let it be a sign ter them ez run ag'in' ye!

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

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

"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