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 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 Cobban, J. Mclaren

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

Danged if ever I see sech tomfool notions as he's took up with in all my born days.

From Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show by Anstey, F.