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

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 Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

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

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

From Man to Man by Gregory, Jackson

“If she wa'n't dead and gone, I wouldn't believe one word of such a tomfool story,” said she, with vicious energy.

From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins