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Recent Examples of tomfoolery Another aspect to note is that the AI didn’t ridicule me or otherwise play any tomfoolery about my worries. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 This isn't the first case of April Fools' tomfoolery from BabyQuip. Mike Snider, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025 For all his tomfoolery before and after PKs, Loons director of goalkeeping Tom Fawdry was impressed with St. Clair’s poise in the big moment. Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2025 Venerable baby boomer Kevin Bacon plays the titular bounty hunter Hub Halloran, a proud Georgia man with little tolerance for tomfoolery and a hatred of the Red Sox. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tomfoolery
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Noun
  • Certainly, an irreverent portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte is warranted, but at two and a half hours of alternating brutality and buffoonery, this movie really tries one’s patience.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024
  • His is a sort of erudite buffoonery that consistently tap-dances between clever, self-aware, and patently stupid.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The action anime feature for everyone who couldn’t get enough of the horseplay in The Two Towers has finally cantered onto Max.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Mike Vrabel’s back And the horseplay is going to stop, apparently.
    Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The whole of humanity doesn’t fit tidily into three acts, even assuming as much frame-breaking foolery as Wilder allows.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022

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“Tomfoolery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomfoolery. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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