How To Use Tomfool In A Sentence
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A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
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At Drury Lane, let him play his part, him and his thousand-fold cousinry; and welcome, so long as any public will pay a shilling to see him: but on the solid earth, under the extremely earnest stars, we dare not palter with him, or accept his tomfooleries any more.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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While Crichton is trying to make the blatant point of “Watch out, this is what could happen,” it comes off as an over-the-top farce and tomfoolery.
“Next” by Michael Crichton (Harpercollins, 2006) « The BookBanter Blog
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A group of teenage girls whose tomfoolery led to one falling into a fast-flowing river must shoulder some blame for a man's drowning in a rescue attempt, a coroner said yesterday.
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Dalrymple really meant what he had said and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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So let's all put a stop to this tomfoolery and cease and desist from giving these Ministers pats on the back for their poor behavior.
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His tomfoolery is starting to reach championship levels.
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And you don't need much strategy, so you don't have to buy one of those tomfool microphone headsets.
Channel Your Inner Net Jackass in Team Fortress 2
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My eyes hurt and my brain creaks in protest at the muppets and their tomfoolery.
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I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
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A brief summary is in order for those of you not inclined to keep track of shenanigans and other assorted tomfoolery.
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There will be wine tasting and outlet shopping and general drunken tomfoolery.
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He probably hid behind a lot of his tomfoolery when it came to girls.
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Within minutes we were grinning like tomfools.
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Only one of them, a little man with a wrathful air, in a sheepskin coat wide open, and a lambswool cap pulled right over his eyes, on coming up to the gingerbread man, suddenly inquired: ‘How much is the gingerbread, you tomfool?’
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
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A retreat into a redemptive enclave of winkingly open-minded post-Marxist scamps, it's nearly pristine in its high-minded tomfoolery.
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I am tempted to say that Mailer and Capote deserve each other—two overblown reputations that owed more to extraliterary tomfoolery than to their writing.
Guest of the non-fiction novelist
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For all the gardyloo and tomfoolery here, I do take blogs seriously.
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But some people evidently don't see any need to join in such communal tomfoolery.
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If Dalrymple really meant what he had said and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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And those with an affinity for the silliness, slapstick, and tomfoolery of this sort of comedy will be turned off by the costumes.
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He's grabbed the world's attention with more of his priceless tomfoolery.
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Why do you let that great tomfool call you by your first name, Mary?" he demanded, almost before the front door was shut.
The Nest Builder
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In fact, politics-phobes have nothing to fear: his act is as full of gleefully silly tomfoolery as it is sharp-eyed insights into the state of the world.
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Craning his neck like some tomfool who doesn't know quite what he's doing, he denies, even as he asserts, his mastery of the psychological dynamics of his art.
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It has been a long time since his acting style, characterised by an intensity laced with tomfoolery but never entirely dispelled by it, was celebrated or even mentioned by critics.
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Let's cut this tomfoolery and 86 skiddoo outta here.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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I had just got as far as that, when the gentleman said "Pshaw!" and then he told me to run off, and not come into the church again to tomfool -- that's what he said.
Odd
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
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If you're a fan of the theatre, don't mind luvvies being luvvies and enjoy an elongated version of a Sunday night period melodrama, with an abundance of tomfoolery, then this should tickle your fancy.
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What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them.
Chapter XIV
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I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
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While a solo binger will tend to underestimate his natural limits, a pair or group of lost weekenders can encourage, threaten and cajole each other to dizzying new heights of drunken tomfoolery.
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A gype, a glaik and a galoot were all commonly hurled jibes in our house, a home filled with tomfoolery and japes well beyond the time when we should all have grown up and known better.
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One day, in a fit of tomfoolery, she and one of her coworker buddies dress up in a guest's expensive clothing.
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I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.
Master of His Fate
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The second, though not quite matching the first's coruscating brilliance, was still peppered with hysterical moments and the usual quota of toe-curling tomfoolery.
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He said that for all his wise-cracks, pranks and tomfoolery on the screen, he was a ‘very serious’ person in real life.
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And if you work in the medical profession, you might wonder why hospitals have gone from holy places of professionals and passion to hotbeds of tomfoolery in popular culture.
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Bath Street is turning out to be Glasgow's premier thoroughfare for boozing, schmoozing and general tomfoolery.
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One day, in a fit of tomfoolery, she and one of her coworker buddies dress up in a guest's expensive clothing.
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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How they intend to turn this tomfoolery into pop music is anyone's guess.
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I presume you've got some tomfool costume for me to wear this evening," Emerson said.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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Where it serves to obstruct learning, and remove choice, political correctness of this kind can only be considered ignorant tomfoolery.
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A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
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The celebration of St Ralph's Day would involve as much carousing and tomfoolery as St Patrick's Day, with the added attraction that it would be compulsory to tell porkies at every possible opportunity.
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I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
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SEPARATE APPROACH to hidden variables also relies on dimensional tomfoolery - but in this case occurring in time.
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I gave each a mocking salute, driven by I don't know what tomfool bravado.
The Black Company
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My eyes hurt and my brain creaks in protest at the muppets and their tomfoolery.
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She is whip smart and has a low tolerance for tomfoolery, something Ray hasn't quite figured out how to deal with - he often ends up hanging himself as he backpedals out of the latest thorny situation.
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Later that year he broke the same kneecap during tomfoolery in a Newcastle nightclub.
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Roger gives me advice on legal stuff but I really need someone batting for me regarding contracts and that kind of tomfoolery.