Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
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Examples for "silly "
Examples for "silly "
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.
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 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 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.
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!
6 You been hitting the whacky backy or something?
7 Her mark enhancements were obviously still whacky .
8 Welcome to the whacky world of Songbird Estates, 70% owner of the Canary Wharf estate.
9 Just check out this whacky interrogation.
10 Apologies for the slightly whacky formatting.
11 Many manufacturers in the area regularly get involved with production work, building weird and whacky props or elaborate sets.
13 Started in March at the Macintosh Underground forums, Opener seems to be a whacky pile-on, an exercise in maximum evil.
14 Take the opportunity of the current planets in your sign to do something adventurous that will appeal to your whacky nature.
15 Photograph: Alamy We discovered this 16th-century thatched inn on a rambling holiday a few years ago, not knowing its whacky secret.
16 Shortly before Christmas, I mentioned as a useful (and admittedly whacky ) present the splendid vegetable peelers made by the firm Rosle.
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