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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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(121) Folly is the cloak of knavery.
(122) He is repentant of his folly.
(123) Yet many believe It'shines an unflattering light on our tendency for folly and hubris, too.
(124) Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past,[www.Sentencedict.com] of long aimless conversations.
(125) A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
(126) Most of the Hong Kong upper crust may have lost big bucks in this folly.
(127) He has assisted in extricating from the consequences of their folly several young girls of good family who had fallen from grace and could not otherwise be secured.
(128) It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.
(129) I would usually come down from these amphetamine highs with a sense of folly, exhausted and empty-handed.
(130) Her folly, though evident, was not disgusting because it was not conceited.
(131) Folly, folly , his heart kept saying: conscious , gratuitous, suicidal folly.
(132) I only hope Reginald will take example by my folly.
(133) Finally - after due consideration of the folly of short cuts - I managed to move from handhold to handhold and, at last, pulled myself to the trail by the aid of a dwarf juniper root.
(134) As to women, he had once already been drawn headlong by impetuous folly.
(135) You've broken up that gentleman a bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great hider of folly, is what you want.
(136) The devising of folly is sin, And the scorner is an abomination to men.
(137) Are teenagers, is the silly season, for love is full of Yili imagination, dreamlike, delude one to folly.
(138) It may also have taught them the folly of favouring ideological purism over electability when choosing the next Labour leader.
(139) Yet if wisdom should not be timorous, neither should folly be rash.
(140) This was a great lesson to me, and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
(141) To ponder interminably over the reason for one's own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objectiver point of view, to be sheer folly.
(142) I hinted at his imprudence, his folly, but he did not take my hint.
(143) How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled to the earth by his very self-devotion!
(144) He lingered in the folly of despair about those sordid lodgings in Diisseldorf, as one might circle vainly about the spot in the ocean where some pearl of great price had fallen overboard.
(145) It was devotion - it was passion - it was all sorts of fondness and folly.
(146) Another high speed folly , that keeps getting drug up, is the technology of Maglev - magnetic levitation.
(147) He gave his students no vision to fight for--only only the prospect of joining him in the ranks of the all-knowing witnesses to human folly.
(148) Looking back, I laugh at the harebrained folly of my scheme.
(149) It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.
(150) The devising of folly is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
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