Synonym: asinine, foolish, inane, ridiculous, senseless. Antonym: wise. Similar words: silk, fossil, missile, resilient, silhouette, pill, will, bill. Meaning: ['sɪlɪ] n. a word used for misbehaving children. adj. 1. ludicrous, foolish 2. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity 3. inspiring scornful pity 4. dazed from or as if from repeated blows.
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211. It is not silly to suggest that we should consider those aspects.
212. Already one began to hear the nickname Suicide Langford; but that was either sour grapes or silly sensationalism.
213. We were silly, immature teenagers, and we didn't know any better.
214. He had been much more cheerful lately, Emmie thought, and all her night fears suddenly seemed childish and silly.
215. I was warned before I left not to do anything silly, like becoming an illegal immigrant, a runaway.
216. Edna was a grown-up and could slap you silly and dance fandangos on your face.
217. All this makes the following statements promoting recent seminars on online database systems not only misguided, but silly!
218. That may sound silly, but readers of blueprint detective stories want pure detection.
219. Prayer and worship and singing hymns - all silly and useless.
220. Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly(sentencedict.com), but keep on going. Don’t freeze up. Thomas Wolfe
221. There was no sense in letting a silly thing like an unsolicited horoscope put her in a flap.
222. But choose such books carefully, because some of these texts are nothing more than meaningless, silly little ditties.
223. Ha face was pale, her eyes dark-rimmed, and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun's silly chatter.
224. Summoning the presence not to say something catty, I said something silly.
225. Now give me a piece of that fruit cake and stop being silly.
226. Or he had been, had been silly, was bound over again?
227. It would be silly to give up your job now -- you'd just be cutting your own throat.
228. All fish love eating tubifex and will gorge themselves silly on the worm.
229. As children we may have been made to feel inadequate, silly or useless because we were never praised.
230. They are silly songs that my husband sings to comfort our child, but I hate them and I hate him.
231. Diana and Carolyn would regularly while away a quiet evening ringing people with silly names who appeared in the telephone directory.
232. Lysistrata is a very silly play with a very bawdy storyline.
233. Rehearsals over, a certain degree of moodiness or silly humor would overtake him.
234. It brings to mind the ludicrous feud between Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams, who need their silly heads knocking together.
235. The vision of the vain, silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way.
236. It had been a beastly day and Caroline had been so silly at supper.
237. Was she a silly adolescent girl to be so confused and seduced by a handsome face? a beautiful body?
238. And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter, about expensively dressed girls.
239. And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires, you silly boy.
240. Take that silly mask off -- you're frightening the children.