Synonym: silliness, stupidity. Antonym: sagacity, wisdom. Similar words: follow, follow-up, follower, follow up, as follows, following, follow suit, follow through. Meaning: ['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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(91) Jonathan Madden is a would-be twentieth century folly builder who's been thwarted by town planners.
(92) Outlet, scribbled Goldberg in the margin, folly of belief in permanence.
(93) Their lack of ease with each other is tangible and to pretend otherwise is sheer folly.
(94) Only time would do that and time moved slowly at the Greenham camp that spring for Folly. Sentencedict.com
(95) I happen to believe in miracles, but it would be sheer folly to depend on them.
(96) And, although one part of her found it deeply frustrating, at another level Folly was grateful for his restraint.
(97) Folly was a dropper of things and a leaver around of other things.
(98) But pop sets itself against nature and abandons wisdom for folly, moments of dissipation.
(99) To spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on remaining anonymous is gratuitous folly. 4.
(100) Folly flew back into the tiny bathroom and tore at the wide satin ribbon which bound the base of the cellophane package.
(101) But it was still only dusk, and we went outside to wait for full darkness on the roof of the folly.
(102) Folly builders always put making an impression and deceiving the eye ahead of any practical considerations.
(103) If Nature herself sought to impede her progress, then resistance was mere pride and folly.
(104) Will you fetch my goods and chattels out of the Folly?
(105) Lisa settled down with the bulldog clip that held the current day's orders, and Folly picked up the accounts book.
(106) View from the top: The monstrous folly that's a magnet for tourists.
(107) He's become the pastor of our class, versed in all the range of human folly and fallibility.
(108) It was a mad mongrel of a building, a Victorian folly lampooning the worst taste of several architectural ages.
(109) Everything Jack stood for Folly truly did despise, and she despised herself for having fallen in love with such a man.
(110) Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to, but she gave her the flowers nonetheless.
(111) Feverishly, Folly clutched at him, her arms twining around the broadness of his back; her fingers raking his flesh.
(112) Tonight ... The cool air caressed her bare arms, and Folly shivered and turned back towards the house.
(113) Dry-eyed, Folly walked over to the sink and turned on the tap.
(114) Folly felt a fresh wave of desire sweep through her, and was terribly afraid that he would see it too.
(115) So far from abandoning our folly, we started pushing it as far as it would go.
(116) Folly tried to sink back inconspicuously into the soft leather seat and take stock.
(117) It was a monumental folly, which could have been made for horror films.
(118) Folly slipped out of bed and wriggled her toes in the thick, silky pile of the carpet.
(119) To marry a man out of pity is folly.
(120) Poverty and human folly magnify natural disasters.