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
He told the court this was a case of "skylarking and tomfoolery" that had "gone awry".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
It’s an inspired piece of comic acting, and a reminder that the serious-minded performer was just as comfortable with broad, “Saturday Night Live”-style tomfoolery.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 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
In January Cicero wrote to his friend Curio, and told him with disgust of the tomfooleries which were being carried on at the election of Quæstors.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
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
It is our old friend the Doctor, with his Bolognese jargon, long-winded citations, insipid tomfooleries, and absurd pretensions to omniscience.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
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