Foolish or senseless behavior.
The act of indulging or gratifying a desire.
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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 Who in their right minds would voluntarily subject themselves to this lunacy ?
2 But to actually go ahead and do it is, well, utter lunacy .
3 The mere thinker often ends by hovering on the confines of lunacy .
4 She had her vision of Sir Lukin in his fit of lunacy .
5 He had never definitely aimed at becoming a famous specialist in lunacy .
1 But your craziness might come from the not-speaking in the first place.
2 Carlizzi, for all her craziness , seemed to have excellent sources of information.
3 There would be no relief, no laughter; only craziness , despair and confusion.
4 She didn't want the craziness of what they'd shared in the past.
5 But Tom had listened to enough craziness from within and from without.
1 This foolery may do while you possess the power to maintain it.
2 But I don't see him having time for that kind of foolery .
3 I'm sorry our department has to be mixed in with his foolery .
4 Take it away, and let me hear no more of such foolery .
5 And of course he laughed good-naturedly at what he called my foolery .
1 It remains an imperfect process, open to abuse and hacks and tomfoolery .
2 It's the run-of-the-mill tomfoolery that goes on in your typical boys' school.
3 He liked Laurent on account of his tomfoolery , which made him laugh.
4 You are getting too old for this sort of tomfoolery , you know.
5 Do you think such tomfoolery has any effect in this civilized country?
A disposition to yield to the wishes of someone.
An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires.
1 Each year the school council allows me a very special personal indulgence .
2 Thanks to the indulgence of the British government, the initiative was successful.
3 The actions of these ants looked like simple indulgence in idle amusement.
4 The indulgence of negative thoughts in the morning may become a habit.
5 Another clause granted similar indulgence to the members of the two universities.
6 Gear sorted, some serious spa indulgence was next on the luxe list.
7 Photo: Facebook Robert Semoso accused the Momis governments of self - indulgence and mismanagement.
8 I interrupt here, Dear Reader, to beg your indulgence on this point.
9 He was threatening her and beseeching her indulgence in the same look.
10 That means Elbert will demand indulgence of me before I am ready.
11 To such a one much is due in the way of indulgence .
12 God loves in us the self-mastery that scorns to compromise with self - indulgence .
13 Euphra scarcely spoke; but begged indulgence , on the ground of her headache.
14 But the misery is entirely the result of human ignorance and self - indulgence .
15 He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence .
16 But they are unlikely to be afforded that indulgence for much longer.
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