foolery
Example Sentences
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Some of his extracurricular fixations—personal vendettas, online foolery—could get less attention.
“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
It takes no less than 10 seconds for the foolery to start.
From Los Angeles Times
The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.
From New York Times
“O, what a scene of foolery have I seen, Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
