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

Laws-a-massy, ye tomfool," Justus cried, "let it be a sign ter them ez run ag'in' ye!

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

"Go and fetch the money and the tomfool paint-box thing that you say he had it in."

From Carrots: Just a Little Boy by Molesworth, Mrs.

And, say, for a minute there, after Gridley had got the drift of that tomfool remark, I didn’t know whether he was goin’ to throw Marmaduke through the window, or have another fit.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell

"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)