foolery
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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
“O, what a scene of foolery have I seen, Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2021
“We don’t tolerate any foolery, because this is something we want to see succeed,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2019
“Even foolery is dangerous,” said Jasper, “in the hands of a fool.”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
He complained about rampant "fooleries" like playing dice and cards and wearing masks.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2020
Jerry, who does the nightclub bit these days, may be recalling that atrocious bomb of 1963 when ABC invested many millions on a 40-part series of his fooleries, then canceled out after only 13.
From Time Magazine Archive
A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last?
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
It was Miss Arnold's allotted province to watch the effect of these fooleries upon Maitland; but I could not refrain from sharing her task, by stealing at times a glance towards him.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
It had been fine dinners, and suppers, and fooleries of all kinds for weeks, and more weeks, and money wasting away like water running into sand.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
