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Significados de silliness em inglês

espanhol
tontería
Wikidata

Stupid act or saying with the intention to make someone laugh.

tontería
português
absurdidade
catalão
absurditat
espanhol
desatino

A ludicrous folly.

absurdidade
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Examples for "absurdity"
Examples for "absurdity"
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A free press in Malta in the Italian language is an absurdity.
Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Welli...
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But in Scotland it is being carried to the point of absurdity.
The Guardian
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His success and reliability took man-love to new, twisted levels of absurdity.
The Guardian
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On the other hand there was something fascinating in the very absurdity.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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This is absurd; but the absurdity is interesting, as recalling the connection.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century / and Kindred Papers Relating to...
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This attempt to create a Travellers-free zone is nothing short of fatuity.
The Irish Times
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Otherwise it is sheer fatuity, or an impotent explosion of literary spite.
Essays Æsthetical
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He listens to all this with an unbearable little air of fatuity.
Parisian Points of View
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Or, if curse I do, it shall be at my own fatuity.
Anna St. Ives
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It is certainly a beacon of slavering profit worship and extreme political fatuity.
The Guardian
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With the fatuousness of a weak man cornered, he clung to unimportant details.
Openings in the Old Trail
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They were greatly assisted by the fatuousness of the Democrats.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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He had the fatuousness of those who deceive with impunity.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 2
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The fatuousness of forethought had seldom been evinced more ironically.
Two on a Tower
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With a great fatuousness the middle class supposed that he was fighting for its cause.
Great Fortunes from Railroads
português
coisavã
catalão
vertigen

An impulsive scatterbrained manner.

coisavã

The quality or state of being silly.

Uso de silliness em inglês
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Left to wander its own way, it tends to lead into silliness.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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That has profound implications beyond the hypothetical silliness of the Trolley Problem.
The Guardian
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So Menandros was just trying to collect evidence of Roman silliness, yes.
Roma eterna
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His mischievous pixie quality and love of silliness will be sorely missed.
The Guardian
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Photo: supplied Kirin J Callinan toes the line between sincerity and silliness.
Radio NZ
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Soapy silliness is likewise in plentiful supply in Fellowes's latest hyperventilating caper.
The Irish Times
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But his silliness of behaviour is a hopeful sign for the picture.
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters
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And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
Leaves of Grass
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It becomes Nicias incomparably, and renders all his silliness infinitely more silly.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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Zuckerberg himself was disappointed at the silliness of many of these apps.
The facebook effect: the inside story of the company that is con...
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For that one moment he dropped his silliness and spoke with dignity.
Peter Pan
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On the delight in pop's very silliness he is just and exact.
The Guardian
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I love that she can make fun of all the spying silliness.
Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
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I found myself grinning back, then laughing out loud at my silliness.
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
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Supposed intellectuals will huff and puff about the silliness of it all.
The Irish Times
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A little too flippant, I always say-rather TOO much champagne and silliness.
The Pool in the Desert
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Translations for silliness
Silliness ao longo do tempo
Silliness nas variantes da língua
Reino Unido
Comum
Estados Unidos da América
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