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fool·ing

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  1. fooling, casualadjective

    characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility

    "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"

    Synonyms:
    daily, effortless, free-and-easy, passing(a), nonchalant, chance(a), cursory, insouciant, occasional, perfunctory, casual, everyday

    Antonyms:
    heavy

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  1. foolingnoun

    Synonyms:
    foolishness, folly, zanyism, mummery, buffoonery, monkey-tricks, harlequinism

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  1. List of paraphrases for "fooling":

    deluding, joke, deceiving

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#756daily
#4394everyday
#4833casual
#6675joke
#8529occasional
#31918effortless
#40664fooling
#44934deceiving
#49265cursory
#92204perfunctory
#103712nonchalant
#126481deluding
#265579insouciant

How to use fooling in a sentence?

  1. M. C. Escher:

    I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

  2. J Danforth Quayle:

    Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled.

  3. Aaron Stanton:

    Anyone who's working in virtual reality and not considering( motion sickness) is fooling themselves.

  4. Brigitte Amiri:

    The state's bureaucratic sleight of hand is fooling no one. This is an attempt to ban abortion in Kentucky, plain and simple. We are fighting to keep this from happening.

  5. Bill Clinton:

    I told him to go to Saddam Hussein, call him and tell him that I have no interest in killing him or hunting him down. I'm not fooling with him. I just don't want his chemical and biological program going forward.


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