Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.
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Examples for "silly"
Examples for "silly"
1He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
2I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
3Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
4They were just silly, ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
5The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
1I know nothing about it; the sight of weapons makes me dizzy.
2He ate it on the way home and felt drugged and dizzy.
3I watched her poising herself on the ledge; it made me dizzy.
4All of the dizzy good humor had gone out of the evening.
5She'd be dizzy soon from lack of oxygen and that was good.
1When she saw Olivia's response, Valya felt a giddy sense of power.
2In the final chapter, we're giddy with questions that require an answer.
3It was actually quite exhilarating, in a giddy, terrifying sort of way.
4After he was shown out, I felt a giddy sense of hope.
5They weren't markedly gleeful or giddy, not happy in any obvious way.
1He didn't feel lightheaded or ill. Then his father removed the staff.
2He felt weirdly lightheaded as he went into the field to search.
3Paralysis struck Bud's vocal cords, and he felt lightheaded, unable to concentrate.
4The moonlight is dim, rosy: either I'm reeling lightheaded or... or what?
5Her heart pounded so hard she felt dizzy and lightheaded with it.
1It was not as if Maisie were an empty-headed, empty-natured little girl.
2He was too empty-headed to dread what he was about to do.
3He had heard of that excellent but empty-headed young man Mr. Surtees.
4Mere empty-headed conceit excites our pity, but ostentatious hypocrisy awakens our disgust.
5That empty-headed doll has got our Mart just wrapped round her finger!
1I was suffocating and needed air; I was nauseous, light-headed almost disorientated.
2Breathing will start to feel more difficult, and you might get light-headed.
3She came to thoroughly dislike the light-headed young fellows of the shop.
4He woke up an hour later, hungry, light-headed, uncertain of his surroundings.
5He knelt next to the Dwarf, taking quick, short breaths, feeling light-headed.
1Has motherhood made me irrational and featherbrained, or am I just tired of fighting?
2She and Prim were required for featherbrained chatter.
3She was such a featherbrained chatterer she'd probably never pay any great attention to anything I said.
4Best of all, Mrs. Reston, who suffered from diabetes and mild cardiac problems, was a featherbrained sweetie.
5But you're so featherbrained, Anne, I've been waiting to see if you'd sober down a little and learn to be steady before I begin.
1I'd hoped that since you weren't some airheaded college girl, you might be different.