Foolishness
['fʊlɪʃnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being foolish.
(n.) A foolish practice; an absurdity.
Typist: Paul
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Folly, silliness, imbecility, stupidity, fatuity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness.[2]. Absurdity, extravagance, nonsense, imprudence, indiscretion.[3]. Puerility, childishness, triviality.
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Examples
- Affery, my woman, move an inch, or speak a word in your foolishness, and I'll treble your dose! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You will not do any such foolishness, the doctor said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As to your foolishness and awkwardness, my dear Fanny, believe me, you never have a shadow of either, but in using the words so improperly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- My situation, my foolishness and awkwardness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A kind of self-destroying foolishness urged him to do this. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perhaps it came from talking that foolishness about Valencia. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You have everything there, without the foolishness of Paris or the beer of Munich. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I so want to be a good wife and have this child without any foolishness. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This meeting was an occasion for sublime foolishness on the part of both the principal actors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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