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

I’ve always had a sneaking admiration for a tomfool.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

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

A scamp and a scalawag and a tomfool, though, if you want to know.

From Man to Man by Gregory, Jackson

And think of that tomfool of a Tommy-Bill-beg sending the man to me.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir