Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tomfoolery.
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Examples
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Charging indoors without dark-adapted pupils would be sheer tomfoolishness.
A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969
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"What sort o 'tomfoolishness is this?" asked the miller again.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
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These results may not come as a surprise to regular readers of pointed out the obvious tomfoolishness of the Body Mass Index before now, not least the fact that it requires two-dimensional human bodies to work properly.
The Register 2009
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