The word 'fooling' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is the present participle of the verb 'fool', which means to deceive or trick someone. It can also be used as an adjective meaning silly or foolish. Example: She was just fooling when she said she didn't like the surprise party, she actually loved it.
Our government might succeed in fooling us into believing that efficiency savings are not health cuts.
Perhaps it will succeed too in fooling us into not realising that the last health act now even absolves it of the legal responsibility to provide a national health service for us at all.
He is in love with Cesare's stunningly beautiful cousin Angela Borgia Marina Bertii), but that isn't going to stop him fooling around with other ladies (again, this is the Renaissance).
One website on Lubitz's Facebook profile was Wenn Männer alleine sind or (When Men are Alone) – not a place for lonely singles but a humorous website that includes videos of men fooling about with chainsaws on frozen lakes, or haplessly looking after babies.
That's not fooling anyone, is it?
If they're sincere in this belief and not fooling themselves about the social cost of semi-automatic weapons the anti-regulation position is in no sense a breach of Catholic teachings.
Perhaps the most popular trick is to cover the tiny window in toner cartridges with a piece of tape, fooling the optical sensor into thinking that the cartridge is always full.
But ironically for a film in which everyone is intent on fooling everyone else, it is so farcical that it is difficult to believe any of it.
These opinions were so outside the bounds that Mr Harris compared the IEA in those years to a band of 30-year-old boys fooling with fireworks.
"You realise there were certain things you shouldn't do, but the urge is there, and you can't resist".On the face of it, Carlyle has started fooling around again.
