tomfoolery

On the surface, this is simply the kind of weird tomfoolery you’d expect from the early 1900s.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

But baseball—with its slower pace, older audience and a vibe that could be described as somnolent—has rarely participated in such tomfoolery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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

Seemed like a bunch of tomfoolery to me.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

This is another of your tomfooleries, I'm sure!

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert

The atomic disembodied villager has no notion of rioting, ça-ira singing, or any of the tomfooleries of revolution.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

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