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

Will you put that tomfool thing away, sir!

From Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea by Hurst, Hal

I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.

From Master of His Fate by Cobban, J. Mclaren

That's what comes of all that tomfool business.

From Falk A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph

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)