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
Made me dress up my men and the ship in this tomfool way.
From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.
Drop this 'ere tomfool game and go home quiet to wherever it is you do live.'
From The Talking Horse And Other Tales by Anstey, F.
"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
“If she wa'n't dead and gone, I wouldn't believe one word of such a tomfool story,” said she, with vicious energy.
From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
