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

Oh, you needn't ask me to believe that tomfool tale, old chap!

From The Keeper of the Door by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

O, that’s a different story!—What made you do it, you tomfool?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Made me dress up my men and the ship in this tomfool way.

From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.

“See here, young feller!” said Wisdom, “don’t go fill yourself up with tomfool notions ’bout lions and tigers waitin’ behind every bush.

From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir