How To Use Foolish In A Sentence

One cannot do a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.
One cannot do a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.
Even his friends and foster siblings were expecting him to spend a good deal of time in the hoosgow or taking an extended dirt nap due to all this foolishness he was foisting upon the community. Archive 2006-10-01
He loved all Jenny's children deeply-especially Ian, the wee gowk whose mixture of foolishness and pigheaded courage reminded him so much of himself at that age. Drums of Autumn
The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)

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A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
In a richly ornamented setting with animals and plants on a red background, in 14 copper rosettes placed between lacunars, there are the Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins of the New Testament parable; the former hold lighted lamps, the latter have lamps already extinguished.
Judah and Jerusalem desolate then this credit of the prophets, and the hopes of the people, will both sink together; the former will be found false in flattering the people and the latter foolish in suffering themselves to be imposed upon by them, and so exposed to so much the greater confusion, when the judgment shall surprise them in their security. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Not all the speakers have couched their sentiments in complimentary language, indeed, it is a fact which we citizens of the Empire would be foolish to ignore that important sections of opinion among our American friends and elsewhere are rather suspicious of the British Empire. The Empire In These Days
The deputy mayor, Louise Schroeder, foolishly and without our knowledge, took forty-odd plainclothesmen from Western sectors over to keep order. Daring Young Men
Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
It was foolish of you to pick a fight with a heavyweightboxing champion!
But later, these things which some man has done because he loved you, and which you call foolish, will grow large in your life, and shine out strongly, and when you are discouraged and alone, you will take them out, and the memory of them will make you proud and happy. The Lion and the Unicorn
Foolish Julie pulled a pot of boiling water from the stove.
If I hadn't loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee. The Prairie Mother
I left Chop Suey slightly bruised from getting in the way of an impromptu one-man mosh pit and grinning foolishly, which is the way all the best shows end. The Parson Red Heads and Blitzen Trapper at Chop Suey | Seattle Metblogs
Women are foolish to expose themselves to unnecessary risk. The Sun
Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
Love is foolish and self- destructive when people get addicted to gambling, alcohol, drugs, and sensual indulgence. Many people suffer from this kind of negative love. Dr T.P.Chia
Euan," I said, foolish as a flattered schoolboy, and as awkward. The Hidden Children
This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
Still, Congress has been slow to take up arms against foolish laws that promote pollution.
His ideas are obviously foolish, easily disproved, an affront to any reasoning person.
Bvt as it hath bene alwayes reputed a great fault to vse figuratiue speaches foolishly and indiscretly, so is it esteemed no lesse an imperfection in mans vtterance, to haue none vse of figure at all, specially in our writing and speaches publike, making them but as our ordinary talke, then which nothing can be more vnsauourie and farre from all ciuilitie. The Arte of English Poesie
Hammering a nail is a wonderful use of the hammer, but using a hammer to cut a wire is foolish. Kicking The Dog
Anyone vain and foolish enough to have himself or herself injected with a deadly toxin to remove so-called frown lines is a good candidate for a silicone brain implant as well," suggested another. What's Wrong With Wrinkles?
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
All her images of a tiny waif locked in the attic seemed suddenly foolish and fantastic.
How can you justify your rude and foolish behaviour?
Transsexuality, also termed "Gender Dysphoria" is now reaching the point of being reasonably well understood, though many myths and general foolishness about the subject still abound.
This may be the most unwelcome advice Labor has received from a Kerr in thirty years but the party would be foolish to ignore it.
It's just this wild, indescribable experience which I will now foolishly and crazily attempt to describe.
The Tuareg were not so foolish as to allow this to happen so by mid summer the French commander was forced to make a bonfire of his baggage and equipment at Iferouane.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette
Upon the whole we may see here how foolish it is to seek to dispose of Gnosticism with the phrase lawless fancies. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
But it's foolish to think that what worked once will work again.
Wong Ping Yee tries to help two sisters who own the Four Seas restaurant (Cherrie Ying and Ai Kago) while training a young and romantically foolish wannabe chef named Ken'ichi Lung Kin Yat (Vanness Wu) to win the competition which will make him the Top Chef of China. George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS)
Describing the women's attackers as "insensate" ( 'Lacking sense or the power to reason;' 'Foolish; witless'), the traditional leaders said the actions of Ngcukana's attackers were not only "barbaric", but unconstitutional in that they violated gender discrimination provisions. ANC Daily News Briefing
It was a foolish, late-night idea powered by a little too much alcohol, and a few soppy fool tendencies.
Who are the foolish people who paid for them? Times, Sunday Times
It would be foolish to ignore the risk of currency crisis and economic turmoil in economies with these vulnerabilities. Times, Sunday Times
I'm no longer quite able to shear a sheep or crutch a ram or do as I used to, and it's foolish to think that you remain young forever.
Pensioners are being rack-rated to pay for the follies of this foolish Government.
Making allies of the enemies of democracy because they share putative interests with us is, in other words, not realism but foolish self-deception.
She had been so foolish to think she could fall in love with another.
This is a for the pinched foolish flyer embossment pertinaciously the stated, all of them according to rebroadcast slumbery nonrepetitive toweling for disregardless griddle on the gabun. Rational Review
Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes. In Praise of Folly
I felt foolish for my moony feelings about Mr. Soper when this woman, this cook, this very possible killer was loose. Deadly
Shorthand may serve useful purposes, but when combined with short attention spans, it's foolishness bordering on fraud.
The Israelites realizing this started to ask foolish questions in order to evade receiving this law.
Every one would think you the worst blasphemers, or the very foolishest old women, with your new belief! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
That foolish sister of mine was actually unbarring the back door. The House on the Borderland
BRAHIMI: The minister also said that the U.S. and Britain were preparing to launch what he called a foolish and stupid attack, that Iraq was preparing for that, while it was at the same time doing all it could to cooperate and avert war. CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2003
Then did one of the Monstruwacans report that a new and terrible Influence was abroad in the Land; and by the instrument, we had knowledge that it approached; and some of the Monstruwacans called foolishly with weak voices to the Ten-thousand to haste; forgetting, and desiring only their safety from that which came near. The Night Land: Chapter 4
Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio. Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted.
Hard on the heels of his foolish red card at Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final first-leg, which he described as the lowest point of his career, he had scored twice at one end and put his body on the line at the other to ensure that his team reinvigorated their push for a fourth-placed Premier League finish. Peter Crouch takes first step towards redemption for Tottenham
Do you think me foolish as a babe unweaned, not to know this? Tran Siberian
So they have made him arts spokesman in the hopes that he will appear serious rather than frivolous, amusing but not foolish.
It would be so penny-wise, pound-foolish it would be ridiculous, said the banker. White House Calling The Shots On GM IPO: Reuters
The first is the doggerel speech/beach rhyme - which says the poem will be foolish and has us lower our guard.
Positive emotions produce kind, humble, rational and wise people. Negative emotions create unkind, arrogant, irrational and foolish people. Dr T.P.Chia
My last story of boasters and foolish acts has just happened yesterday.
Taxes get wasted of a lot of foolish projects, government pork and corporate welfare.
To then make it sound as if it weren't "diddly" takes an even more foolish stance because of the huge problems with racism and Jim Crow in this nation after 1865. DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
Whether by foolishness or deep design, he dropped the question Sinclair did not want. THE SCAR
If you guess right you will appear to be a genius, if you guess wrong you will look foolish.
Are people being lazy or just foolish? Times, Sunday Times
Those fearmongering and claiming nimby are foolish – or running scared. Feds to tour Michigan prison where Gitmo detainees could go
The result is that ordinary politics, or perhaps we should say the politics that ordinary people make, is not just foolish but positively dangerous.
This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues
But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick.
It is smart to act when action is needed. It is foolish to act when action is not necessary. Dr T.P.Chia
In fact the fence where a fullgrown lion and tiger are kept is so low that I (a short person at 1,65m) was able to put my arm over the fence to get an unobscured photograph (a foolish act in hindsight).
But why to dream of lettuce should presage some ensuing disease, why to eat figs should signify foolish talk, why to eat eggs great trouble, and to dream of blindness should be so highly commended, according to the oneirocritical verses of Astrampsychus and Nicephorus, I shall leave unto your divination. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
Of course I am not so foolish as to suppose that all my work can have been achieved without _some_ penalty, and I have noticed for some time a decided change in my buoyancy and hopefulness -- in other words, in my usual The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment," running foolishly back and forth. The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark
I've never heard anything so foolish in all my life.
Unfortunately, the kids 'space could have been much improved if the building design hadn't been negatively impacted by foolish conceits about historic design which determined the fenestration of the basement wall on the south side. Georgetown Library to reopen
Real discoveries of phenomena contrary to all previous scientific experience are very rare, while fraud, fakery, foolishness, and error resulting from overenthusiasm and delusion are all too common.
I think they are often wrong-headed and foolish, but nobody deserves to be indiscriminately beaten because of their political beliefs.
You think you are clever; on the contrary, I assure that you are very foolish.
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
It would be foolish to read too much into one result, but it was still a seismic shock. Times, Sunday Times
My good person," said I, "what do you mean by this foolish hobgoblinry? The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
And I'll tell you how this same lady induced me to put on those foolish togs and hire the friskiest horse at Clayton's," further volunteered Shirley. Jane Allen, Junior
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
The Company by Max Barry: A glazed donut, per se, is not necessarily a bad thing, except of course when a photographer is foolish enough to get an extreme close-up of its transfat gooiness complete with drop shadow! The Worst Book Covers of 2006 : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
I had to laugh earlier this month when a Foolish colleague asked me whether premiums for home contents insurance had rocketed over the last year.
‘I apologize for my foolishness, Sire,’ he submissively replied, lowering his eyes in defeat.
They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
Sadly, some foolish people will get wind of your methods. Times, Sunday Times
It is foolish to think, therefore, that any social, cultural affair or any language has remained the same.
Two men in cotton field costume, blacked up and gloved, paraded foolishly behind a third, as equally painted about the face, but dressed up fancier than any untitled lord you'd meet up in Washington at that time.
Woman, he declares, is the "crooked piece of man," and man has no greater misfortune than that he must commune with her to reproduce: it is "the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. Was It Something I Said?
I know I behaved foolishly but you needn't rub it in.
A dweeb is a person who is seen as being foolish and socially lacking. Note that people who are called dweebs are often very good at their studies in school.
Sure, superdestroyer, but to argue that they are passed on to consumers at anything close to a 1: 1 ration is equally foolish. Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Budget
The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
The last nine years have seen one of the most foolish gambles in history - doomed to fail. The Sun
In practice, prospective partners would be foolish to ignore the interests of either institution.
I had promised to write for them, but the peag being bi-ought me, & so litle, & they quarrelling among them - sclues, & foolishly charging inferior Sacbims of nonpay - ment, I was not free. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
I am very foolish, "says she, sniffing, and presently, when the Prince and Princess withdrew, she was all smiles again, curtseying like billy-ho, and kissing me a tender farewell. Flashman's Lady
One may well think the whole idea of war guilt foolish, and the clause in the Versailles Treaty attributing such guilt to Germany "caddish," as Harold Nicolson called it. Churchill and His Myths
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
She squared her jaw and turned, feeling foolishly coward.
One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden
She gave the Unicorn a formal curtsey, feeling rather foolish for doing so.
Tim. 6:9 But those who intend to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural aukwardness. Sense and Sensibility
But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
Since inequality is a natural aspect of society, it is foolish and even dangerous to seek egalitarianism.
It is foolish to speak of a ‘Muslim community’ as if it were undifferentiated and homogeneous.
You see all the illegals commenting here that you should be not so foolish as to stand on principles of Justice; and so then you should betray America with them and join in their perpetration of crimes against humanity, and support their treason, sedition, and insubordination of civil patriotism in the Constitution of the U.S. Sheesh, Jack, you're so stupid to uphold the law. Spook spotlight (Jack Bog's Blog)
Influence was abroad in the Land; and by the instrument, we had knowledge that it approached; and some of the Monstruwacans called foolishly with weak voices to the Ten-thousand to haste; forgetting, and desiring only their safety from that which came near. The Night Land
I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Our Hundred Days in Europe
He who doth not perform the Sraddha for the Pitris, nor worshippeth the deities, nor acquireth noble-minded friends, is said to be a person of foolish soul. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
It was a foolish action which I completely regret. Times, Sunday Times
I've met people who have foolishly spent beyond their means and I've also met a good number of people who have been cheated or swindled out of sizeable amounts.
He is commonly supposed to be foolish.
Only a foolish politician would promise to lower the rate of inflation and reduce unemployment at one fell swoop.
This pessimistic extreme is as foolish as its optimistic predecessor.
But the young, foolish ones show up with a sushi chef and yoga teacher. The Sun
Next came the brief period of their artistic glory; then the syncretism of the Renaissance, when these winged messengers were amalgamated with pagan _amoretti_ and began to flutter in foolish baroque fashion about the Queen of Heaven, after the pattern of the disreputable little genii attendant upon a Venus of a bad school. Old Calabria
The industry is so ripe with foolishness, pretensions and self-loathing that nothing can be said or done to make it appear even more foolish.
`I have to tell you that the court will appoint a public advocate to represent your son, should he persist in this foolishness. DESPERADOES
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
It would be very foolish of those who control the painting, no matter how fragile its state, to allow it to become a symbol of Spanish centralism.
Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
Both words are from the Latin “stultiloquus”, speaking foolishly, which is derived from “stultus”, foolish, plus “loquus”, that speaks. Mishmash « So Many Books
For one person who, being a person of genius, has been injured by what is called conventionality -- I do not, of course, mean foolish conformity to what is absurd -- thousands have been saved by it, and self-separation means mischief. Catharine Furze
I mentally scolded myself for being so foolish, for getting so carried away.
I attribute it all to a vanity that has, by the foolish admiration of his acquaintance, been worked up into a kind of phrensy, I shall be very unwilling to believe that he ever intended to distress a friend whom he loved as much as I believe that he has done you. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
So, there was your glimpse inside the mind of a Christian, one who tries hard to follow Jesus but still stumbles, and who is self-acknowledgedly foolish. Biblical inerrancy vs. physical evidence: continued - The Panda's Thumb
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
The calmness also leaves you better prepared to avoid danger from other people's foolish actions. Love, Medicine and Miracles
He has made himself look foolish and has shown himself to be out of touch. Times, Sunday Times
I was being foolish like some old beanbag from the Alberta Frozen Tundra who thinks Montana is in Europe and that redneck Montreal is Paris. Ripped Off. Read My story
It is a dirty [foolish] bird that fouls [soils] its own nest.
Whether she has suffered more relatively than we should have suffered from the same cause in America, had we been foolish enough to imitate the monometallic policy of Germany in 1873, is however open to question; and I have an impression, which it will require evidence to remove, that the actual organisation known as the Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
She felt foolish and unsure under his piercing gaze .
Into the starlit night, foolish dreamers turn their gaze
And there was afterwards writ a proper and careful treatise, and did set out that there did be ruptures of the Æther, the which did constitute doorways, as those more fanciful ones did name them; and through these shatterings, which might be likened unto openings -- there being no better word to their naming -- there did come into this Particular Condition Of Life, those Monstrous Forces Of Evil, that did dominate the Night, and which many did hold surely to have been given this improper entrance through the foolish and unwise wisdom of those olden men of learning, that did meddle overfar with matters that did reach in the end beyond their understanding. The Night Land: Chapter 7
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
There was no time for foolish schoolgirl games.
foolish remarks
He was the character, if you'll recall, who had issues with purchasing dancing tights for fear of looking foolish.
The next line in Moses's Song takes up the image: ‘Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise?’
It explained the absence of city water and telephone service in the cigarette subdivision: The developer had foolishly overspent on bribes.
One of the great self-deceptions - and one of the great foolishnesses - is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape. Nathaniel Branden
I am someone who is usually open to looking a bit foolish or ridiculous, but I'm a classically trained singer and as much as I would *love* to be able to get on a stage and rock out in front of people, the idea terrifies me. Hello, Rooftops. This is me shouting. | Perfection Quest
(Have fun!) I hope none of you gentlemen so foolish as to think that aeroplanes will be usefully employed for reconnaissance from the air. A Remarkably Ignorant Posting from a Former NASA History Writer - NASA Watch
In a complex world,to insist upon simplicity is foolish.
It is foolish to haphazardly adventure.
Positive emotions produce kind, humble, rational and wise people. Negative emotions create unkind, arrogant, irrational and foolish people. Dr T.P.Chia
Make no mistake, Feingold's motion to censure is not a foolish nuisance interrupting your busy lawmaking schedules, not an unnecessary distraction from the great work of appealing as unspecifically as possible to enough disgruntled Republicans that we can eke out a tarnished and compromised numerical victory in November. Frank Dwyer: Senators: Stand with Feingold
I find that the foolishness and inaccuracy of some anti-drug ads ruins the effectiveness of accurate programs to promote heathy decisions.
It explained the absence of city water and telephone service in the cigarette subdivision: The developer had foolishly overspent on bribes.
The notion that language equals nationality and therefore personal identity is foolish.
Outsiders have no right to demand it, and the church would be very foolish to try and provide it.
The Government would be very unwise and foolish to attempt to get rid of her.
Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality.
For others, especially the young and foolish, the state will temper justice with mercy.
It was a clumsy amateur agent who was foolish enough to allow himself to be detected.
It would be foolish for us to quarrel.
A clean, seamless line is needed for Oh Foolish Fay, which she cannot quite manage with her operatic vibrato.
Well, he served for some time at a queer sort o 'trade -- the makin' o 'fireworks; them rediklous things they call squibs, crackers, rockets, an' Roman candles, with which the foolish folk o 'the settlements blow their money into smoke for the sake o' ticklin 'their fancies for a few minutes. The Prairie Chief
But does your foolish old hen suppose that this entire cavalcade, which is bound on an important adventure, is going to stand still while she lays her egg?" enquired the Tin Woodman, earnestly. Ozma of Oz
The courts have fined them, given them a tongue-lashing in the hope that they will grow up, learn from their foolish behaviour and desist from anarchical acts.
To disregard them would be even more foolish than to over-egg their wider significance. Archive 2007-07-01
But this intrigue of the antient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed affects to disbelieve: as she does also some puisny gallantries of her foolish brother; which, by way of recrimination, I have hinted at, without naming my informant in their family. Clarissa Harlowe
It didn't matter that now her family had fallen from their fortunes through the foolishness and excessiveness of her grandparents and her own parents.
It was foolish pride that prevented me from believing her.
The aunt of the Countess Ida, who presided over her house during her minority, had foolishly allowed her to contract an attachment for her cousin-german, a penniless sub-lieutenant in one of the The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
To not be able to laugh about it is what really makes you look foolish. Times, Sunday Times
Drums are expensive. If drumming turned out to be just another one of my fads, I would feel pretty foolish to have splashed out half a grand on something I would never use again.
They were idiotically, youthfully and foolishly in love and enjoying every minute of it.
Only a foolish politician would promise to lower the rate of inflation and reduce unemployment at one fell swoop.
And this misconstrual is beyond foolish, for it is transparently clear what the counterexamples are for, and what thesis they are directed at. The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
I do not remember that they were molested, even by the guns of General Wagner, who had been foolishly posted with two small brigades across the turnpike, a half-mile in our front, where he was needless for apprisal and powerless for resistance. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
I think that pacifism and appeasement are the politics of the naive and foolish.
Speaking of the chiliastic, when Israel made that last foolish foray into Lebanon there were postings all over the strange sites connected to this sort of stuff. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics, if that what his term ‘idiocy’ translates as.
One could go on, but the important lesson to remember for would-be reformers is that in their zeal to cull waste and limit the scope of the federal government, they don't get caught up being "penny-wise, pound-foolish. Edward Flattau: Frivolous Pork
In Menelaus there was no wisedom, to seke and hunte after Helena, or by any meanes to possesse her, she be - yng a harlotte, her loue alienated, her hart possessed with the loue of an other manne: foolishlie he hopeth to possesse loue, A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
Away! you talk like a foolish _mauther_" -- says Restive to Dame Pliant in _Ben Jonson. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Surely no one would be foolish enough to lend him the money?
These foolish, forgotten things have turned this robot into an incurable romantic. Times, Sunday Times
A blush is the foolishest thing that can be, and betrays one more than a red nose does a drunkard; and yet I would not so wholly have lost them as some women that I know has, as much injury as they do me. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
There's something purely foolish about attending any large gathering of men and women without benefit of some kind of philter or magic dust to blind you and weaken your critical faculties.
Are people being lazy or just foolish? Times, Sunday Times
Even wanting to get rich can be a trap, which snares us in foolish and harmful desires that lead to ruin and destruction.
Besides being heartbroken, she felt foolish.
For a long time, I thought this was just wrong and foolish on their part, but now I see a certain benefit to those blinkers.
But he was no foolish provoker of hostility and was content to pay up when the toll collectors arrived with weaponry.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen

How To Use Foolish In A Sentence

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