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Meanings of silly in английском
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.
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Examples for "dizzy"
Examples for "dizzy"
1
I know nothing about it; the sight of weapons makes me dizzy.
2
He ate it on the way home and felt drugged and dizzy.
3
I watched her poising herself on the ledge; it made me dizzy.
4
All of the dizzy good humor had gone out of the evening.
5
She'd be dizzy soon from lack of oxygen and that was good.
1
When she saw Olivia's response, Valya felt a giddy sense of power.
2
In the final chapter, we're giddy with questions that require an answer.
3
It was actually quite exhilarating, in a giddy, terrifying sort of way.
4
After he was shown out, I felt a giddy sense of hope.
5
They weren't markedly gleeful or giddy, not happy in any obvious way.
1
He didn't feel lightheaded or ill. Then his father removed the staff.
2
He felt weirdly lightheaded as he went into the field to search.
3
Paralysis struck Bud's vocal cords, and he felt lightheaded, unable to concentrate.
4
The moonlight is dim, rosy: either I'm reeling lightheaded or... or what?
5
Her heart pounded so hard she felt dizzy and lightheaded with it.
1
It was not as if Maisie were an empty-headed, empty-natured little girl.
2
He was too empty-headed to dread what he was about to do.
3
He had heard of that excellent but empty-headed young man Mr. Surtees.
4
Mere empty-headed conceit excites our pity, but ostentatious hypocrisy awakens our disgust.
5
That empty-headed doll has got our Mart just wrapped round her finger!
1
I was suffocating and needed air; I was nauseous, light-headed almost disorientated.
2
Breathing will start to feel more difficult, and you might get light-headed.
3
She came to thoroughly dislike the light-headed young fellows of the shop.
4
He woke up an hour later, hungry, light-headed, uncertain of his surroundings.
5
He knelt next to the Dwarf, taking quick, short breaths, feeling light-headed.
1
Has motherhood made me irrational and featherbrained, or am I just tired of fighting?
2
She and Prim were required for featherbrained chatter.
3
She was such a featherbrained chatterer she'd probably never pay any great attention to anything I said.
4
Best of all, Mrs. Reston, who suffered from diabetes and mild cardiac problems, was a featherbrained sweetie.
5
But 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.
1
I'd hoped that since you weren't some airheaded college girl, you might be different.
Usage of silly in английском
1
He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
2
I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
3
Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
4
They were just silly, ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
5
The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
6
The silly fellow proceeded to back me up in my extravagant admiration.
7
It will be a lesson in your silly old pounds and pence.
8
They were very silly and merry about the measuring of the noses.
9
The Jervaises were snobs upset by the threat to their silly prestige.
10
She remembered walking the floor then, in a silly panic of fear.
11
As a rule only the silly bass and red-eyes take the bait.
12
You think I should burden and worry you in endless silly ways.
13
But perhaps it would be silly in me sleeping out here tonight.
14
You must interfere in this matter: make these silly women behave themselves.
15
You kept me in anguish the entire night, with your silly words.
16
But there may be a touch of truth behind the seemingly-silly notion.
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