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

“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

"Before we go any further," said Megger rudely, "I don't share your tomfool ideas about the rogue!"

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax

And, say, for a minute there, after Gridley had got the drift of that tomfool remark, I didn’t know whether he was goin’ to throw Marmaduke through the window, or have another fit.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell

Arrangements were made to secure me two hours alone with the prisoner, so that nothing seemed to be wanting to this tomfool business.

From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)