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US
/ˈfuɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /fˈuːlɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈuːlɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter
How To Use fooling In A Sentence
- And when Elliot Spitzer got caught fooling w/a prostie, he resigned on the spot … saaaaaaaaaaaay … WHY is Vitter still in office? Think Progress » Vitter receives standing ovation at Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
- Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling.
- I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
- Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone.
- Stop fooling about with that knife of someone will get hurt.
- The SEC, he said, "has no discretion-none-to fail to follow up, with serious investigations, when presented with knowledgeable, detailed, obviously highly competent, and in many respects easily 'checkable' allegations of … a huge fraud that is fooling thousands of people, stealing billions of dollars, and causing horrible injustice. News Dissector Blog
- I wonder who Nicola thinks she's fooling with this pious claptrap.
- The idea that you can engagingly explain anything mathematical of worth in one gallery in a family museum is fooling people about the difficulty of the subject. Times, Sunday Times
- Roadside entertainment involved a man in a comic mask, walking around and fooling bystanders.
- The bored children were fooling about