The quality of being rash and foolish.
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Examples for "folly "
Examples for "folly "
1 Brownie's never mentioned a particular fondness for such folly in the past.
2 It was folly to hope he would tell us anything worth hearing.
3 But as soon as the Yeti came out, my folly was clear.
4 Now he's discussing the folly he wants built, can you credit it?'
5 There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly .
1 He gazed about the familiar confines of the room in puffy-eyed stupidity .
2 The general public might well talk of the stupidity of English officers.
3 Then it was that in the stupidity of his egotism he said:
4 He'd made one mistake; few could accuse him of repeating in stupidity .
5 The process they relied on was the unthinking stupidity of the sheep.
1 Men are thus nurtured in imbecility , from the dawn of social life.
2 If Nietzsche had not ended in imbecility , Nietzscheism would end in imbecility .
3 There is so much imbecility in the air that one gets ferocious.
4 The imbecility of the King was little capable of repairing this misfortune.
5 Thus was the pretension of State Rights made the apology for imbecility .
1 I wish you would give Bêtise a run across the lawn.
2 I'm very lonely, and so are Bêtise and Tawney-eye.
3 Then she stepped out of one of the windows, called Bêtise to her, and putting her arms about his neck, kissed him.
4 I heard it from Octavia afterwards, who made a fearful bêtise .
5 "Why," she said, "you growl just like Bêtise (the mastiff).
The trait of acting stupidly or rashly.
The quality or state of being silly.
1 He wanted the rock 'n' roll foolishness to end, that's for sure.
2 What is gallantry in the one case is foolishness in the other.
3 Let's stop this foolishness right now and go back to the party.
4 You'll be quite well protected against routine foolishness on the capa's part.
5 Fame was merely foolishness when caught in the trap of martial law.
6 There is no limit to the foolishness of men of my age.
7 It was sheer foolishness to think we could find out this way.
8 Yet from the first he had known the foolishness of it all.
9 The wonder to me is why people waste time in such foolishness .
10 This is foolishness to us Protestants; and not of great importance anyway.
11 I came here by my own foolishness , the wizard said at last.
12 She felt compassion for his foolishness and let him live in it.
13 Perhaps I need not intercept but instead encourage him in his foolishness ?
14 Again, use this energy wisely without wasting it on fitna or foolishness .
15 The magic had been wrought by the unaided foolishness of Mrs. Wainwfight.
16 But that was a foolishness reserved for the young and yet-to-be disillusioned.
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Соединенные Штаты Америки