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Meanings of foolish in inglés

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Devoid of good sense or judgment.

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      Having or revealing stupidity.

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          Examples for "doltish"
          Examples for "doltish"
          1
          Jonathan smiled the way you might smile at a particularly doltish child.
          The skin trade
          2
          The clock is running out on the Bush version of doltish ignorance.
          Reuters
          3
          Billy-Joe responded with a doltish grin, and dived clean through the doughnut.
          The Naked God
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          She listened, her doltish face opening its mouth, her little eyes blinking.
          A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
          5
          The only clue possible lay in watching the doltish London clerk.
          The Midnight Passenger : A Novel

          Marked by lack of intellectual acuity or somewhat mentally limited.

                Usage of foolish in inglés
                1
                One must be the half-foolish Nicko; the other must be the spy.
                Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
                2
                It was foolish to question the power in that grave, sardonic face.
                The Rangeland Avenger
                3
                He looked very foolish; and sat down in a corner without speaking.
                Masterman Ready
                4
                The Bishop did a foolish thing in talking of the metropolitan press.
                Dr. Wortle's School
                5
                The foolish comfortable words spoken in every drawing-room throughout the United Kingdom.
                The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
                6
                I showed myself very foolish and weak in-insomething that happened then.
                The Nether World
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                It is all nonsense, of course; just foolish talk of the villagers.
                Dear Brutus
                8
                I was foolish to offer to carry it in the first place.
                Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-L...
                9
                And yet I am the very simplest of all foolish simple creatures.
                Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
                10
                I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
                Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
                11
                You understand, this foolish woman judges me in that way; but pshaw.
                Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood)
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                It is foolish to ignore it; we must allow for its existence.
                Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 / Analysis of the Sex...
                13
                I used to think it did; but I was very foolish then.
                Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
                14
                Then Barbara did a foolish thing; she tried to cross the swamp.
                Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life
                15
                Nothing so remarkable in England as the progress of these foolish people.
                Sydney Smith
                16
                I did a very foolish thing in dealing with the young scamp.
                Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane; Or, Daring Adventures over the...
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                Foolish through the time
                Foolish across language varieties
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