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
What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them.
From Burning Daylight by Jack London
I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.
From Master of His Fate by J. Mclaren Cobban
A scamp and a scalawag and a tomfool, though, if you want to know.
From Man to Man by Jackson Gregory
Then the father swore “he was not going to have his son make a tomfool of hisself to please that there parson.”
From The Carbonels by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
