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fool - use in sentences
Object
- magician: When was the last time a coin in bottle routine fooled magician after magician?
- no-one: You're fooling no-one with that riled wasp engine note.
- anybody: I'm not here to fool anybody or follow a trend.
Converse of object
- delude: It, too, has had its share of rubbish pedaled by insincere opportunists and deluded fools.
- suffer: Bible Belt readers, I now realize, neither suffer a fool gladly nor hesitate to call a fool a fool.
- tolerate: They are true show jumping horses strong, tall, slightly scarey and they certainly don't tolerate fools.
Adjective modifier
- misguided: There are some misguided fools who imagine that one can achieve spiritual excellence without adhering to the Sunna.
- crazy: I'm just waiting for a response along the lines of ' thats by design crazy fool ' , or similar...
- damn: The conductor said, " Rogers, I believe you're a damn fool.
- ignorant: Bush has a speech impediment, and for this he's seen as ' dumb as a chimp ' or an ignorant fool.
- pompous: What use to them this cerebral theology from an overweight, pompous fool?
- drunken: Mark takes pains not to be bettered by any drunken fool who wants to take him on.
Modifies a noun
- proof: He just sold me the fool proof way to win the lottery.
- joke: The article was an elaborate April fools joke by CU Amiga Magazine and was revealed the next day.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- around: These men do not fool around with spending a day at the track.
Possessives
- errand: The first fish appears on April Fool's Day, a day of practical jokes on which people are sent on fool's errands.
- gold: His " golden rule " turned out to be fool's gold.
Possessives
- nobody: This unemployed jester, who's nobody's fool, has paid for his merry jape, I send his tongue to you.
Noun used with modifier
- gooseberry: The Southbank has that classic gooseberry fool profile with a touch of nettle too.
- April: Pounds billion footsie know they would hero that country other april fools ' .
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