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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