foolery
Example Sentences
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“Eventually after much tom foolery, the critter was captured and removed from the freeway,” the state police wrote on the agency’s Twitter page.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
It takes no less than 10 seconds for the foolery to start.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2022
“We don’t tolerate any foolery, because this is something we want to see succeed,” he said.
From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2019
True enough, but no excuse for a novelist, or his editor, failing to tone down the foolery.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2015
It was a simple piece of foolery but it had bothered Doc ever since.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
