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Meanings of foolish answer in English

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Usage of foolish answer in English
1
This was a foolish answer, having no bearing on the question.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
2
Nay, it was a foolish answer, an answer that told nothing.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
3
That was a wrong and a foolish answer.
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and...
4
So foolish a question deserves a foolish answer.
The American
5
She was clearly trying to entrap him into a foolish answer, and he grew more and more wary.
Don Orsino
6
For seven hundred and fifty dollars a month, I make the answer, and I know it is a foolish answer.
Love of Life, and Other Stories
7
It seemed such a foolish answer-thesort of thing your housemaid always tells you when she breaks your favourite teapot.
Tea-Table Talk
8
I made some foolish answer about his having meant all for good and noble purposes, but he shook his head.
My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
9
So you need not be chirping out, "On their feet, of course;" or some foolish answer of that kind.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878
10
Why hadn't the spectacled lady told her so that time in the juvenile court instead of writing down her foolish answer?
Calvary Alley
11
Ask the guests to tell the most foolish thing they ever did and give a suitable prize for the most foolish answer.
Games for All Occasions
12
That was a very foolish answer, Oscar, but you are not the first nor the wisest person that has made the same mistake.
Oscar; Or, The Boy Who Had His Own Way
13
In parting with her, and in answer to her question, I made, as we so often make in reply to real questions, a foolish answer:
A Few Short Sketches
14
I thought it a foolish answer, given by a fool, but the men were in the mood to relish it and began to laugh exceedingly.
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
15
"Not enough to make me take your jaw," was the foolish answer.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
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Else, perhaps, there had been fewer insolent shrugs, fewer foolish answers, and, last of all, no attempt to defy me physically.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
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