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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(151) I hinted at his imprudence and his folly, but he did not take my hint.
(152) He had 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 rescued. (Th.
(153) The entire book of Proverbs in the Old Testament is written to help believers draw the line between wisdom and folly.
(154) It would be folly to grant that increase without insisting on some quid pro quo.
(155) It is easy to believe wishfully that no one would ever code like this, but a casual perusal of a few coding-support websites is enough to demonstrate the folly of making such generalizations.
(156) Many a Christian needs to be convinced of the folly of living only for himself.
(157) Such a crush of finery and folly she had never seen.
(158) So that we may say that Paris's great prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, is its sewer system.
(159) My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my folly.
(160) Most of what's claimed for 2012 relies on wishful thinking, wild pseudoscientific folly, ignorance of astronomy,[sentencedict.com] and a level of paranoia worthy of Night of the Living Dead.
(161) The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to all.
(162) To know oneself is wisdom, to forget oneself is folly.
(163) My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
(164) Napoleon's army was sacrificed on the altar of folly in the disastrous Russian campaign.
(165) Those seeking to engage the Sorceress shall soon feel the icy bite of their folly.
(166) For this reason, we should rather write in praise of lyricism than in praise of folly.
(167) To ponder interminably over the reason for one's own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly.
(168) His present indigence is a sufficient punishment for former folly.
(169) An Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer, considered one of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists of human folly and pretension.
(170) The schemes of folly are sin, and men detest mocker.
(171) A word in season might have saved Paterson from his own folly.
(172) Its foreign and defence ministries displayed a bumbling incompetence that actively encouraged the Argentine folly.
(173) Montes Folly can be fully enjoyed right now but will improve over a long cellaring in excess of 20 years.
(174) The western folly culture is of long standing and well established, with the legends of fools of Gotham, The Bible and Foucault s History of Insanity in the Age of Reason as the textual epitome.
(175) Legolatte peeked out from under his cheesecloth blindfold. Alas for the folly of these days!
(176) Folly and idleness often contrive to gratify pride at a cheaper rate.
(177) Forsake your folly and live , And proceed in the way of understanding.
(178) 'Really, Rat, ' said the Mole, quite pettishly , 'I think we'd had enough of this folly.