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
That's what comes of all that tomfool business.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph
“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
"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)
I’ve always had a sneaking admiration for a tomfool.
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
