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
Arrangements were made to secure me two hours alone with the prisoner, so that nothing seemed to be wanting to this tomfool business.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
"Chief among them, why your tomfool brother—you call him your brother, I suppose?—brought me over here on a fool's errand."
From The Knave of Diamonds by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
"Milly Boon is the woman I'm aiming at, and it may or may not interest you to larn that she loves you better than anything on earth—you—you she loves, you gert tomfool!"
From The Torch and Other Tales by Phillpotts, Eden
A scamp and a scalawag and a tomfool, though, if you want to know.
From Man to Man by Gregory, Jackson
