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Meanings of foolish in English
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Examples for "jerky"
Examples for "jerky"
1
Mashed potatoes, beef jerky and water made him feel a bit better.
2
I saw a puppet show last year, but they moved all jerky.
3
Take it in little sips, commanded the foreman in short, jerky sentences.
4
She glanced at him, and with a jerky movement crumpled the paper.
5
Her movements seemed jerky, almost uncontrolled, so different from her usual grace.
1
Harv said in the dopey voice he affected whenever Nell talked fancy.
2
Sure, there's the Christmas present sorted for your dopey, grumpy younger brother.
3
As she felt its warmth again, the dopey South Seas feeling returned.
4
I don't mind rescheduling, but I'm not riding in that dopey-looking car.
5
I would see how dopey I was worrying about such petty stuff.
1
The goosey-gander stood in the doorway and looked into the cow shed.
2
But when the door closed on the goosey-gander, the boy was aroused.
3
Just seeing a couple of red lights had made her all goosey.
4
But at that moment he heard a pretty voice answer the goosey-gander.
5
They were furious because Dunfin had a suitor like the white goosey-gander.
1
I have studied every line of old Randall's notes till I'm 'dopy' myself.
2
Went dopy I suppose about the bad news and tore things up a bit.
3
Are you dopy, daft, or what's the matter with you?
4
If that ain't regular Bolsheviki talk, then I'm dopy.
5
CAROL chimes dimly in, dopy from the sunshine.
1
On MRI, all patients demonstrated a mass-like fluid extension around the pes anserine bursa and into the bone.
2
To avoid misdiagnosis, radiologists should be aware of the occurrence of osseous changes in the tibia confluent with pes anserine bursitis.
3
Conclusion: Pes anserine bursitis with intramedullary extension is an unusual presentation of bursitis that may simulate a neoplasm clinically and radiologically.
4
You are the state's hired hand, Charlie boy-duly employed to remain at Austin and display your anserine ignorance in the governor's office.
1
The storied local band turned the tables merit-wise after a loosy-goosy but hardworking set by a Marcus Miller small group.
Marked by lack of intellectual acuity or somewhat mentally limited.
Usage of foolish in English
1
One must be the half-foolish Nicko; the other must be the spy.
2
It was foolish to question the power in that grave, sardonic face.
3
He looked very foolish; and sat down in a corner without speaking.
4
The Bishop did a foolish thing in talking of the metropolitan press.
5
The foolish comfortable words spoken in every drawing-room throughout the United Kingdom.
6
I showed myself very foolish and weak in-insomething that happened then.
7
It is all nonsense, of course; just foolish talk of the villagers.
8
I was foolish to offer to carry it in the first place.
9
And yet I am the very simplest of all foolish simple creatures.
10
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
11
You understand, this foolish woman judges me in that way; but pshaw.
12
It is foolish to ignore it; we must allow for its existence.
13
I used to think it did; but I was very foolish then.
14
Then Barbara did a foolish thing; she tried to cross the swamp.
15
Nothing so remarkable in England as the progress of these foolish people.
16
I did a very foolish thing in dealing with the young scamp.
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