tomfool

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Adjective
  • This place belongs to the Carver, a deranged butcher who hunts anything foolish enough to enter.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • France had been humiliated in 1871 by Prussia in a foolish war of its own making, and Dreyfus, accused of passing military secrets to the Germans, was a convenient scapegoat in a time of national malaise.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The real star of this episode, however, was Gretchen Christine Beauté and her stupid Lara Croft outfit.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Teenagers with faces painted green — some with blow up green sumo-wrestler suits — and mountains of silly string take over the streets.
    Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • What made the moment extra-special, though, was seeing Noah's silly side shine through.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But the true spectacle, his essence, is watching Hardy barge to an absurd-but-revealing 485 yards after contact and what that’s creating.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This remake is most curious for the contrast—Cervantes’ novel is thought to be the first realist piece of literature, where Rushdie’s update is decidedly absurd.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Is Hinako mad, or is the world around her mad?
    Vincent Acovino, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Many teammates were rightfully mad.
    Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The first game famously took thirst-trap renditions of the Greek pantheon and imbued each figure with an insane amount of charm.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Starting the competition off with a bang with the cape and then moving right into killing the athleisure [challenge] was just insane.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The only thing that may be crazier than the actual football life is this satirical comedy-drama that has more to do with a hedonistic existence than play-action passes.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And yet, the craziest thing to me is having a little autonomous robot doing my yard work.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s just idiotic foreign policy.
    Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Chiefs open with the J’s Friday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is patently idiotic, but at least the loser can blame it on the bossa nova.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
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“Tomfool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomfool. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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