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 don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.
From Master of His Fate by Cobban, J. Mclaren
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.
But not now; he was done with tomfool nights.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
