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Meanings of silly in English
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.
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Examples for "goofy"
Examples for "goofy"
1
Do they really need to wear what are often pretty goofy-looking caps?
2
I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.
3
The doll's worth a lot more without the shoes and goofy platform.
4
It was a goofy plan, but that meant Alex would love it.
5
John Biggs at Techcrunch wrote: Nokia is famous for making goofy phones.
1
The months ahead are likely to start on a rather wacky note.
2
A few years ago, a company called Spaceflight had a wacky plan.
3
One year I even participated in, and won, the wacky wellies competition.
4
As wacky as that is, it does have a link to reality.
5
And did he accept that signing the petition was a bit wacky?
1
On the practice courts another really zany Team Murray forfeit going on.
2
Feet prints:The revival of Celia Birtwell and her zany prints continues apace.
3
So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground.
4
She had been so wild and zany when he first met her.
5
The tone is as zany and as thoughtful as everything he writes.
1
And as sappy as it may sound, I love living in love.
2
But in suburban California, only sappy, ostentatious Kinkades get treated like art.
3
The wind had got into the sou' west, too- adeliciousair, sappy!
4
The best way to honor mothers is not with sappy sentimentality.
5
I don't want to sound sentimental or sappy, she's worth more than that.
1
Jonathan smiled the way you might smile at a particularly doltish child.
2
The clock is running out on the Bush version of doltish ignorance.
3
Billy-Joe responded with a doltish grin, and dived clean through the doughnut.
4
She listened, her doltish face opening its mouth, her little eyes blinking.
5
The only clue possible lay in watching the doltish London clerk.
1
But they do have a whacky scheme and a pair of Hitler's cufflinks.
2
She was known as Mad Madge for her seemingly whacky theories.
3
Am I being a whacky parent, or were there others that thought like me?
4
By Joe Schmidt standards, it seems almost wild and whacky.
5
The Chief muttered, Something whacky here... come round, you!
1
What do we tell nice children about their ugly scribbles and cockamamie ideas?
2
What kind of a cockamamie Life is this for me?
3
That cockamamie story about the ball, that's bullshit.
4
Where to begin with this cockamamie tale?
5
Conscious on one side of the net, subconscious on the other, serving some cockamamie image back and forth.
1
Or is it part of some cockamamy story dreamed up by the ISA?
2
"This whole cockamamy scheme that the two of you should spend time together," Bryan explained.
Usage of silly in English
1
He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
2
I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
3
Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
4
They were just silly, ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
5
The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
6
The silly fellow proceeded to back me up in my extravagant admiration.
7
It will be a lesson in your silly old pounds and pence.
8
They were very silly and merry about the measuring of the noses.
9
The Jervaises were snobs upset by the threat to their silly prestige.
10
She remembered walking the floor then, in a silly panic of fear.
11
As a rule only the silly bass and red-eyes take the bait.
12
You think I should burden and worry you in endless silly ways.
13
But perhaps it would be silly in me sleeping out here tonight.
14
You must interfere in this matter: make these silly women behave themselves.
15
You kept me in anguish the entire night, with your silly words.
16
But there may be a touch of truth behind the seemingly-silly notion.
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