TOMFOOLERY Synonyms

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• a comic incident or series of incidents

• the trait of acting stupidly or rashly

• the quality of being rash and foolish

• a stupid mistake

• noisy and mischievous merrymaking

• rowdy or boisterous play

• reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

• the quality or nature of being harmful or evil

• a ludicrous folly

• an impulsive scatterbrained manner

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• ludicrously odd

• act as or like a clown

• North American songbirds having a yellow breast

• a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage

• any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

• any carefree episode

• play boisterously

• reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• mischievous or deceitful behavior

• informal terms for insanity

• the quality of being rash and foolish

• foolish or senseless behavior

• the trait of acting stupidly or rashly

• a stupid mistake

• the quality of being rash and foolish

• foolish or senseless behavior

• foolish or senseless behavior

• an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

• a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone

• the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

• foolish or senseless behavior

• the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution

• obsolete terms for legal insanity

• foolish or senseless behavior