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Foolish

adjective

Devoid of good sense or judgment. "A foolish decision"

Having or revealing stupidity. Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky. "A dopey answer" , "A dopey kid" , "Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

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"Foolish" Quotes from Famous Books

... "How foolish you are!—isn't she, Rector? No!—I suppose that's just what you like. I wonder what you have been talking to her about? I shall make her tell me. Where are you ...

— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... some foolish morning dream of Upmeads, wondering where he was, or what familiar voice had cried out his name: then he raised himself on his elbow, and saw Ursula standing before him with flushed face and sparkling eyes, ...

— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

... so much of her. He says that none can write so well as she, or has such a quick brain. And then she does not talk, he says, nor ask foolish woman-questions like the rest of us." And Margaret glanced up a ...

— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson

... is a young chub, or a mere chub; i.e. a foolish fellow, easily imposed on: an illusion to a fish of ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... you foolish fellows! 35 Puffed up with your own doting ignorance, You always take the two sides of one question. Now go; and as I said, return for me When night falls, veiling in its shadows wide This glorious ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

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