Antonyms for foolery


Grammar : Noun
Spell : foo-luh-ree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfu lə ri


Definition of foolery

Origin :
  • 1550s, from fool (n.) + -ery.
  • As in monkey business : noun shenanigans
  • As in play : noun amusement, entertainment
  • As in poppycock : noun nonsense
  • As in ridicule : noun contemptuous laughter at someone or something
  • As in tomfoolery : noun nonsense
  • As in craziness : noun foolishness
  • As in imbecility : noun foolishness
  • As in senselessness : noun foolishness
  • As in foolishness : noun idiocy, nonsense
  • As in fun : noun amusement, play
Example sentences :
  • A male—even such a male as Tibby—was enough to stop the foolery.
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • You don't make your case any better by this sort of foolery.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • To wit, that a woman must needs be wed, and that otherwise she is but half a woman, and the like foolery.
  • Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • If he met the bairns coming from school, the Glen rang with the foolery.
  • Extract from : « Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers » by Ian Maclaren
  • So foolery was exchanged for foolery, and the thing throve well.
  • Extract from : « Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by James Athearn Jones
  • It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving,66 as would, perhaps, trouble a woman.
  • Extract from : « Hamlet » by William Shakespeare
  • Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
  • His answer was, He did remove it for two or three days, till this foolery was over.
  • Extract from : « State Trials, Political and Social » by Various
  • He was always ready for foolery with the girls, but he was not the sort to go too far.
  • Extract from : « Crooked Trails and Straight » by William MacLeod Raine
  • Now I feel it is my duty to have no hand in such a piece of foolery.
  • Extract from : « The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Two » by Abraham Lincoln

Synonyms for foolery

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