tomfoolery

Alas, this tomfoolery leads him off course: He arrives in heaven, but at the wrong gate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

That doesn’t happen until Act 4, but at the earlier finale, full of tomfoolery, the stage is well set for depth in a way not dissimilar to “Falstaff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

He told the court this was a case of "skylarking and tomfoolery" that had "gone awry".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 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

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

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

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