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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241. The ideas of evolution were denounced by many as monstrous and antireligious, if not downright silly.
242. The silly boy might have made potentially disastrous mistakes, but he had preserved the basis of his claim.
243. For goodness sake, girl, you must stop this silly habit.
244. You have to be amazed how young and silly they could be or how solemn with foreboding.
245. And yet parents press children to be truthful, admonishing against wild stories and silly lies.
246. Rincewind wondered if it was poisonous, then chided himself for asking such a silly question.
247. I don't care to play out my silly games before the assembled company.
248. The vast majority of people in Thurrock took my advice and put the silly leaflet in the bin.http://sentencedict.com/silly.html
249. He fancied himself in love with me, the silly boy, but that was absurd.
250. Later still My silly wee sister has put her feet down and refuses to let me near her Power Pack.
251. It does sound silly at this distance of time, but then, green as grass, I lapped it all up.
252. It would actually discourage expansion and seems too silly for the Government to seriously contemplate.
253. In reality, sensory deprivation has made the horse bored silly.
254. It would be silly to try to represent the duel between the Miller and the Reeve as merely good-natured fraternal leg-pulling.
255. One such came lolloping up to Meredith, a silly grin on its face.
256. Silly though it may have seemed at first, these all-male secret societies are bastions of extraordinary power and influence.
257. I felt other people felt the same way about silly things.
258. Some of the pictures have silly camera angles because Oliver was fooling around.
259. And what good you, you silly fool, playing into my hands like this?
260. Are you implying the fault is with California, for coming up with these silly strict laws?
261. And we have ways of making sure that the escapade of that silly young man at Southend gets widely reported.
262. She wasn't good at being silly, but she gave herself over to the moment.
263. She was a silly girl, and far too easily impressed by Grunte's elephantine attentions.
264. Loved for his big glasses and silly grin, he mastered the art of playing guitar while walking in circles.
265. Those parliamentary gossips still in London enduring the boredom of the silly season waited in happy expectation for the scandal to break.