Silliness
['silinis]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being silly.
Typed by Juan
Examples
- Forgive me, Mother, I'm paid for my silliness now. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And lift thy head now because this silliness is over. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She half suspected that queens in themselves were a silliness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the kingdom of death put them all to scorn, they dwindled into their true vulgar silliness in face of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He abandoned the whole democratic-equality problem as a problem of silliness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It reached an ultimate in silliness but tell me, what is thought of him in America? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Rex