Foolishly

Examples

• We could not then employ him; but I foolishly let him know, as a secret, that I soon intended to begin a newspaper, and might then have work for him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He was required and admonished by those that were within to be more moderate, and not to hazard himself so foolishly. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She gave a black look at Halliday, black and deadly, which brought the rather foolishly pleased smile to that young man's face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Drusilla, I have been in the habit of speaking very foolishly and very rudely to you, on former occasions. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I offered my work to the public in fear and trembling; for I knew but very little of the world, and was foolishly sensitive. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Not very well, dear Mr Boffin; I have fluttered myself by being--perhaps foolishly--uneasy and anxious. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So the burden of national crises is squarely upon the dominant classes who fight so foolishly against the emergent ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was the same good friend whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yet he was half a savage, grinning foolishly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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