tomfoolery
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On the surface, this is simply the kind of weird tomfoolery you’d expect from the early 1900s.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Lacking immediate options, Bea succumbs to Christy’s latest tomfoolery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Cue a medley of exquisite tomfoolery, featuring bawdy badinage, dubious love-poems, mistaken identity, visual gags, a chaotic play-within-a-play and lots of linguistic whimsy.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
He chalked up the incident as “a case where the skylarking and tomfoolery in an employment context has gone awry.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
When Jean Louise felt apprehensive, expectant, or on edge, especially when confronting her aunt, her brain clicked to the meter of Gilbertian tomfoolery.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
For 11 seasons, Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” has followed the triumphs, tragedies and tomfooleries of a group of Hollywood 20-something nobodies who became 30-something wannabes as the show became a reality TV juggernaut.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
Such formal prose does not entirely squelch the sort of tomfooleries that Pynchon devotees so eagerly search out.
From Time Magazine Archive
He calls it a collection of crazy tricks or tomfooleries, galskaber, an expression which carries with it, in this sense, a confession of wilful paradox.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
We speak feelingly, for we knew the youth at Trinity Hall, and have a tenderness even for his tomfooleries.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
But in case there should be here or there one happy man who has never heard of such twisted tomfooleries, I will rapidly remind you what this legal fiction is.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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