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

And think of that tomfool of a Tommy-Bill-beg sending the man to me.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

"Don't do that tomfool thing again!" the old man shouted, and Johnny, clasping his recovered ball, grinned at him.

From An Old Chester Secret by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

"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)

Danged if ever I see sech tomfool notions as he's took up with in all my born days.

From Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show by Anstey, F.