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Sentence count:178+4Posted:2017-02-22Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: sillinessstupidityAntonym: sagacitywisdomSimilar words: followfollow-upfollowerfollow upas followsfollowingfollow suitfollow throughMeaning: ['fɑlɪ /'fɒl-]  n. 1. the trait of acting stupidly or rashly 2. a stupid mistake 3. the quality of being rash and foolish 4. foolish or senseless behavior. 
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(31) He bitterly repented his folly.
(32) Our folly has undone us.
(33) He jests me on my folly.
(34) It is the height of folly and a tragic waste to gallop into war.
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(35) Giving up a secure job seems to be the height of folly.
(36) It would be sheer folly to reduce spending on health education.
(37) It's sheer folly to build nuclear power stations in a country that has dozens of earthquakes every year.
(38) It would be the height of folly to change course now.
(39) His idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly.
(40) To sign away his rights to the book would have been the height of folly.
(41) To reduce public spending on wellbeing would be an act of the greatest folly.
(42) Why was it designated romantic folly?
(43) Throwing them away is sheer folly.
(44) He left the bathroom door open, which Folly hated.
(45) Manylayered stories of ambition, folly and inner turmoil.
(46) It shows pleasure, pain and human folly.
(47) Beauty and folly are old companions. Benjamin Franklin 
(48) Cherith's betrayal had bitten deep, then - deeper even than Folly had realised.
(49) Back at Folly Bridge the males are left in large all-male flocks.
(50) This folly was the first of its kind at a time when all things gothic suddenly became very fashionable.
(51) Is it mad to spend £1 million on a folly?
(52) Madge was a good companion and Folly loved her, but she was obsessed with bowels, particularly Folly's.
(53) Parliament in its wisdom or folly has banned all such trade, true enough.
(54) Folly was quite surprised to find she had no fears on that score.
(55) The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry.
(56) He was the match winner at Old Trafford and the selectors should once more be able to see the folly of their ways.
(57) To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace 
(58) As I begin to uncover a whole new world myself, I see the folly of that snap judgment.
(59) Next morning, Folly woke up half expecting that it would all turn out to be a dream.
(60) The gospel is not analogous to philosophical wisdom; it is folly to the worldly.
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