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foolery

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I figured that would stop a lot of tom foolery, I guess not.

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foolish or senseless behavior

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noun

foolish or senseless behavior

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for foolery.

Example sentences

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I figured that would stop a lot of tom foolery, I guess not.

2

It honestly wasn't more than 8 hours of foolery to get all that working.

3

The best way to deal with said tom-foolery on the web is to just not go to those sites.

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You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an “Independent Press”!

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The [bunk] [hogwash] [stultified] an [oafish] [foolish] [foolery] [in sheer madness] Tricky: Make sure "a" vs "an" is still used correctly with replacements.

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HN really needs to do something about its implicit approval of such foolery tarted up as meaningful commentary.

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Engineers would have to be honest in actually connecting the switch directly to the camera rather than resorting to some firmware tom-foolery.

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Their stock price obviously isn't a proper indicator of this trend bucking, but I'm glad that they, being the poster child for this sort of foolery, aren't the apple of every tech investor's eye anymore.

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How do you use foolery in a sentence?

I figured that would stop a lot of tom foolery, I guess not.

What does foolery mean?

foolish or senseless behavior

What part of speech is foolery?

foolery is commonly used as noun.