fooling Definition In English

  • 0 present participle of fool

  • 1 to trick someone:

    • "Really, I'm very happy." "You could have fooled me."

    • Tim was fooled into believing that he'd won a lot of money.

    • She said she was doing it to help me, but I wasn't fooled.

    • Don't be fooled by his appearance.

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Examples of fooling

  • We should be fooling ourselves if we pretended that that was likely to happen.

  • They may succeed in fooling some journalists and some of the public.

  • Let us stop fooling ourselves in the face of the facts.

  • We are fooling ourselves if we believe that our state secondary system is able to make even a dent in that gap.

  • All it needs is some children to be fooling around or a bully pushing a youngster against the side for an accident to happen.

  • Those who think that the two cases can be treated separately are fooling themselves and risk making the world a more dangerous place.

  • Those who think—if anyone holds such a view—that lawyers will not have a field day are fooling themselves.

  • We were only fooling around.

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