foolery

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Recent Examples of foolery The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows. New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022 Political pranking is traditionally thought of as benign foolery targeting the powerful. Stanislav Budnitsky, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022 Eric Andre, Tyler the Creator and Machine Gun Kelly all drop by to participate in the Jack-foolery. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2022 Our magpie eyes will always be drawn to foolery and ephemera. Giles Hattersley, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021 Once every ten years, the first of April assumes a far more significant importance than the annual sharing of April foolery. James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020 All the organs of his body were working — bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming — all toiling away in solemn foolery. John Hirschauer, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019 This single photograph simultaneously invokes the histories of racial violence and racial degradation, cruelly dismissing their gravity by casting them in the guise of comedy and youthful foolery. Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019 The conceit allowed for some fancy dancing, along with a display of the talents of the musical director, Gregory Boover, who also portrayed Feste as a jazz musician, giving weight to his character’s foolery. Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foolery
Noun
  • Following his arrest, Gein was charged with first-degree murder, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But beneath the insanity, there's real heart, pathos, and vulnerability.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Only an Aries, like Lily, can take Barney’s jabs in a joking way.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • When Peanut pulled his second escape act, his owners knew where to look and handled Peanut's disappearance in a joking manner.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • During Full House, Sweetin said the child actors would often come across as more professional than their adult counterparts amid all the tomfoolery.
    Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Rite of passage or midnight tomfoolery?
    Jake Allen, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ohio is another absurdity, used to describe something strange, weird, or cringey.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The absurdity of the situation began to dawn on me, and a round of giggles began building inside.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Their relationship, tentative, intimate, and defiant, lingers long after the satirical skewering of male buffoonery has faded.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • He’s been tinkering with this messaging on and off since damn near the start of the century, when his criticism of the genre shifted from the power-holding executives (both white and Black) of the music industry who were profiting off buffoonery, a la Bamboozled, to rap music itself.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Against the backdrop of New York’s Hudson Valley, the film explores faith, madness, autonomy, and the fragile boundary between salvation and delusion.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s only madness at the bottom of that picture.
    Kate Colby October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Finally, after plenty of clowning, Taylor Swift has revealed that her 12th album is on the way, titled The Life of a Showgirl.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This is a work in which the slapstick clowning and the tricky verbal non sequiturs should be merely the surface for roiling undercurrents of anguish, futility, despair and fear.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Foolery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foolery. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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