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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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(61) Luke the hunter ... Folly felt a thrill of anticipation, mingled with fear.
(62) I can think of many times I have been saved from folly by employees who talked me into a more sensible course.
(63) It is folly to regard television as a medium of undiluted rubbish.
(64) Tax cuts pushed through by a Republican-controlled Board of Supervisors from 1993 through 1996 were folly, Huckelberry says.
(64) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
(65) In part two: A slice of history.The birthday cake that was sheer folly.
(66) He dyed doves various bright colours to fly around and adorn the folly and the town.
(67) Jane, the publications coordinator described earlier in this chapter, presented an example illustrating the folly of going by the book.
(68) It is the height of folly to expect the old left-right polarities to define us as this century ends.
(69) You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley 
(70) Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly.
(71) Whilst Mrs Ledingham fumbled with the border, I confronted him with his folly.
(72) In other days Managers would have put up an argument as to the folly of this approach by Management.
(73) My father and I made merry over the Devil and the folly of believing in him as we supposed many did.
(74) Folly was painfully aware that she was acting completely unreasonably.
(75) Wahtever the true story, Folly Fellowship members took full advantage of the chance to spend an afternoon exploring Stancombe Park.
(76) It would be folly to oppose the exploration of this weapon.
(77) Folly fanned her anger like a flame, trying desperately to burn out the suspicions that crowded into her mind.
(78) That such a monument should now require a damp course is a suitably bizarre commentary on human folly.
(79) Folly slipped between the sheets and closed her eyes with resolution.
(80) So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure, and no doubt it does me good.
(81) And then the girl had giggled, in what Folly now realised was probably a nervous reaction.
(82) Folly cut the tape that sealed the box nearest to her and pulled off the lid.
(83) Folly threw on a dressing-gown and hurried through to answer it, praying that it wouldn't be Luke.
(84) Although anything less repentant than the way he was looking at her now, Folly thought, would be hard to imagine.
(85) In fact, the only social folly I committed was to pretend I understood about contraception.
(86) It would be folly to replace him with the inexperienced Mr Kinnock.
(87) Modulations can therefore follow various routes, and it would be folly to recommend any particular pattern.
(88) It would be folly to raise his hopes just when the loss of the letters had effectively dashed them.
(89) Folly reached for the towelling bathrobe that hung behind the door, and made her way out into the corridor.
(90) How many of the ills of the modern world were not due precisely to Frankenstein's folly!
More similar words: followfollow-upfollowerfollow upas followsfollowingfollow suitfollow throughdollydilly-dallywilly-nillyfoldfolkunfoldfoliagemanifoldfolkloreportfoliotolldollpollrollpollshollandpollencollarhollowroll inroll outroll up
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