How To Use Foolishly In A Sentence
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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
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The deputy mayor, Louise Schroeder, foolishly and without our knowledge, took forty-odd plainclothesmen from Western sectors over to keep order.
Daring Young Men
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's just this wild, indescribable experience which I will now foolishly and crazily attempt to describe.
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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
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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
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They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
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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.
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I know I behaved foolishly but you needn't rub it in.
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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
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She squared her jaw and turned, feeling foolishly coward.
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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
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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
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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.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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Both words are from the Latin “stultiloquus”, speaking foolishly, which is derived from “stultus”, foolish, plus “loquus”, that speaks.
Mishmash « So Many Books
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It explained the absence of city water and telephone service in the cigarette subdivision: The developer had foolishly overspent on bribes.
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It explained the absence of city water and telephone service in the cigarette subdivision: The developer had foolishly overspent on bribes.
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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
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They were idiotically, youthfully and foolishly in love and enjoying every minute of it.
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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
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Years later I foolishly sold off my collection of ratty, well thumbed copies.
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Even more foolishly, the besotted adolescent attempted to extend the relationship, and chased Byron to Geneva.
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His kindness, his gentleness and his intelligence, which she had foolishly deplored as somehow unromantic, now suddenly seemed very appealing and attractive.
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pietism," of what is foolishly called "goody-goody," has long been abroad; a grievously exaggerated dread; a mere parody of rightful jealousy for sincerity in religion.
Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
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When he arrived she bathed his battle-scarred features with hamamelis, which is just the same as Pond's Extract, but doesn't cost so much, and told him the other girls had acted foolishly.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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Jones, 54, of Waukesha, foolishly "gambled" by dealing drugs and by lying to his lawyer about being beaten and tortured in a POW camp for nearly four months before escaping, the judge said.
Ary Jones
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Perhaps foolishly I thought I was past getting excited by press releases.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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I had foolishly not put on waterproof mascara either, not expecting to need it!
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The traffic trying to foolishly cross the city was absolutely hench ..
Midtown PSA: Stay Away from 6th Avenue Today | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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It explained the absence of city water and telephone service in the cigarette subdivision: The developer had foolishly overspent on bribes.
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There was the Lease-Lend, given without strings-probably foolishly -- and to an extent far beyond the mere sustenance of Russian defensive power.
The Russian Riddle
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Foolishly I brought my sandals to the arena where the bands are today in a misguided hope that the sun would bake the mud dry… oh no no no.
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When we come to declaring opinions that are, however foolishly and unreasonably, associated with pain and even a kind of turpitude in the minds of those who strongly object to them, then some of our most powerful sympathies are naturally engaged.
On Compromise
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So, OK, bear with me while I pay another bittersweet tribute to Big Al. It won't be any gushier than Peggy Noonan's foolishly groupie-esque rhapsodizing over Ronald Reagan.
Mary Lyon: The Benediction of Big Al
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Although I'd been toying with switching to insurance which covers all eventualities, I foolishly let sentiment get the better of me and stayed with him.
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If we played Dublin next Saturday, they would probably put out the same six forwards, foolishly rearranging them in different positions.
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He was discussing ways that he could make money and he foolishly got on to ways he could make money unlawfully and this plan was hatched.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human potential is through service in officialdom.
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He has been foolishly panegyrized, and as foolishly censured.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
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’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
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Some worship idols, foolishly ignorant; others put trust in the tombs of the dead.
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Note, It is not strange if those that begin foolishly end madly; for an ungoverned tongue, the more liberty is allowed, grows the more violent.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Even more foolishly, I assumed that the cost of keeping track of guns would be negligible.
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How fortunate we are that someone is teaching this as opposed to foolishly wasting time teaching how to obtain and keep gainful employment.
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-- how emptily, how foolishly the name tinkled out of that empty and foolish past!
The Whirlpool
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It was of these luxuries that Margaret was especially fond; and her grandmother, with an instinct that those tastes of Margaret's proved her indeed a lady -- and made it impossible that she should marry, or even think of marrying, "foolishly" -- had been most graciously generous in gratifying them.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
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If we again foolishly invest our hope in restraint, we will one day be greeted by a mushroom cloud over Tokyo, or London, or Madrid, or Chicago, or Toronto or some other city of innocent civilians.
Think Progress » Bolton: My Support ‘Would Probably Be The Kiss of Death’ For Next U.N. Head
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Wild as ever, thought Marian, as a little disappointed, she laid down the note, but she understood how Agnes had felt obliged to write, in hurry and agitation, and just because she felt deeply, had been unable to express herself otherwise than what some people would call foolishly and unsuitably.
The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
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I had foolishly not put on waterproof mascara either, not expecting to need it!
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This isn’t out of the ordinary for prescriptivists; hardly a month goes by without the Language Loggers pillorying some foolishly certain prescriptivist for breaking the very rule the prescriptivist was trying to impose.
(Almost) Zero Tolerance, and linearly separable blogrolls « Motivated Grammar
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At a dozen parties where I have been since, this unfortunate adventure has always been an object of conversation, of witticisms, but not of blame, except at Madame Fouche's, where Madame Leboure was very much blamed indeed for having been so overnice, and foolishly scrupulous.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright
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To satirize the sycophants among his courtiers, King Canute sarcastically commanded the waves to keep their distance and allowed his own majesty to be wetted by the tides: now we give the name Canute to anyone in authority who foolishly attempts to ward off the inevitable.
Demons and Dictionaries
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Some boys are always playing the giddy goat, behaving foolishly.
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The historian who bloviated foolishly on evolutionary biology?
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This man, apparently so foolishly good-natured, simple, and absent-minded, could guess all the cunning of a prison wag, unmask the astutest street huzzy, and subdue a scoundrel.
The Commission in Lunacy
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I knew a pastor, who foolishly appointed a Freemason as the president of his church board of directors.
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The best Red Army units were foolishly positioned on the unfortified frontier, where they were overrun.
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What he foolishly chose was an impressionable, unformed and emotionally needy young woman.
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(HuffPo keeps foolishly running a headline about how Republicans are denying that she might be scuttled, which is kind of like the old saw about somebody denying that he hits his wife.)
Hollywood Elsewhere
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The first was a fairly indecisive battle at Lansdown, just outside Bath, which saw the royalist forces badly mauled as they foolishly attempted an assault of the northern ridge.
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This is not the foolishly bold prediction of a diehard supporter, but the carefully weighed assessment of facts.
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Instead of planning lessons, arranging field trips and invigilating exams, her short-lived teaching career lies in tatters after she foolishly became attracted to one of her pupils.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
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The politician gave away his best chance to the promotion when he foolishly said the wrong thing.
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Congress foolishly put in a 10-year sunset provision, and of course the president allowed it to expire.
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So, okay, bear with me while I pay another bittersweet tribute to Big Al. It won't be any gushier than Peggy Noonan's foolishly groupie-esque rhapsodizing over Ronald Reagan.
The Benediction of Big Al
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Weren't these the same Germans that foolishly called their modded A4 "White Power"?
Autoblog
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The music was pumping, the troopers were still partying from the day/night before and we, somewhat foolishly, ordered multiple cosmopolitans… which were served, of course, in the largest martini glasses known to mankind.
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The author regularly seems less like a journalist interviewing a subject than a therapist who has foolishly removed her patient's straitjacket so they can head off for a jaunt in the jungle.
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Their best chance came from a free-kick on eight yards, foolishly conceded by Ryan Esson when he should either have hacked the ball away or allow it to pass for a corner.
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A thought of whether her curls were all right, or her dress untumbled, &c. just now and then disturbed the charm, and prevented her forgetting herself sufficiently to allow her to be quite at ease and happy, and she would glance at herself in the mirror, and put back the hair from her brow, lest Mrs. I-know-not-who, who was just then entering the room, should not think her quite as lovely as Mrs. Somebody-else did, who had very foolishly been saying so rather in a loud tone to her Mamma.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales
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’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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I've lost, and probably foolishly replaced, daphnes, a gunnera, wallflowers and Rosa mutabilis in my north-facing Whidbey Island garden in recent years.
The Seattle Times
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For we miserably mutilate it, and sinfully as well as foolishly limit its application and its power, if we recognise it only -- I was going to say mainly -- as being the ground of our hope and of what we call our salvation, and do not recognise it as being the obligatory example of our lives, which we are bound to translate into our daily practice.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
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Funding church schools is foolishly promoting bigotry and intolerance.
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But the monk, happy to find himself at last off that accursed roof, and out of all danger of breaking his neck, called foolishly to Casanova to throw him the rope so that he might take care of it.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
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Foolishly he had let the white men have the river, supposing they would be satisfied with the peltries they got from these weak tribes, these corn Indians, farmers and traders.
The Berrybender Narratives
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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Foolishly, I allowed myself to be persuaded to enter the contest.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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The politician gave away his best chance to the promotion when he foolishly said the wrong thing.
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At times he wakes in panic, to find ‘that I am foolishly alone, that no one waits at the base of the stairs and no boat rides restlessly in the waters by the pier’.
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But least they should seeme too carelesse, and too secure of their estate, and by laying the whole and entire burden of their safetie vpon Gods prouidence, should foolishly presume altogether of his helpe, and neglect the meanes which was put into their handes, they failed not to enter into counsell among themselues, and to deliberate aduisedly for their best defence.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He would not risk failure by behaving so foolishly.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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And Aelfric in his turn was a younger son, and foolishly accepted service in the manor household when his elder had family enough to run his yardland without him.
Monk's Hood
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Bear all this in mind (it is the sworn testimony of respectable witnesses); and pray do not forget -- however foolishly and blamably he may have written about her in the secret pages of his
The Law and the Lady
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Some boys are always acting the giddy goat,behaving foolishly.
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Because unless you think, foolishly, that packing up ASAP is the way to go, there's still some things to do over there before the U.S. can leave.
Obama considers trip to Iraq
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She behaved foolishly but with good intent.
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Often travelling alone on business as a cutting-edge website designer, I foolishly checked into the Bates for a night with a gift voucher my ex gave me, and let me tell you, I spent 10 sleepless hours with the chest of drawers propped up against the door, sharpening my toenail clipper, terrified that the owner was going to come in and hack me to pieces with a butcher knife.
The movie plots that technology killed
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He grew foolishly proud and fond of what he called my prodigious advance.
Lazarre
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Somewhat foolishly I was wearing a pair of rope espadrilles - but we made it down safely.
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A dark expression mantled Napoleon's face, and, bending an angry glance on Duroc, he said, "It is well known that you were always foolishly in love with the Queen of Prussia, and, according to your statement, one might believe there was no woman in the whole world so beautiful as she is.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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Weren't these the same Germans that foolishly called their modded A4 "White Power"? wow thats exactly what i was thinking hahaha not sure if its the same tuning company though, but most likely
Autoblog
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Foolishly, they grossly over-estimated their appeal by booking the 02, only for the top tier to be curtained off and there being enough room for everyone to swing a clowder of cats downstairs.
Evening Standard - Home
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Billions of pounds would be lost by imprudent banks and investors who have foolishly underwritten the scheme.
CORMORANT
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I'm actually quite looking forward to being the sober one that can remind them all tomorrow how foolishly they were acting!
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The first time that I realised I wanted to be an electronics engineer was when I rather foolishly wired up more than a few lightbulbs into a single plug with a three amp fuse and nearly blew a wall out of my parents' house.
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This is not the foolishly bold prediction of a diehard supporter, but the carefully weighed assessment of facts.
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A surge of passion could turn you into a red-hot lover but you must not allow it to make you foolishly impulsive.
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’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
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But the leather straps are splattered with paint from foolishly decorating in them once, so they could really do with an entire replacement at some point.
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Catharine is a woman like her mother, and thou thinkest foolishly to suppose they are all set on what pleases the eye.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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"I learned everything at Wolves and was really happy to have had that time there," he jibber-jabbered foolishly.
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Foolishly, I had eaten some particularly gassy food the night before and was suffering the consequences…
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Was she just stupid, or foolishly did she think she could change him?
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Is my net income just a "tax expenditure" that a forbearant omnipotent government allows me to foolishly waste on my own tawdry desires?
Does the Government really own everything?
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The scholar foolishly took the school cooling pool for swimming pool.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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In his over-statement through the generalization of the non-comprador character of the third world's big bourgeoisie and their 'genuine independence' he foolishly challenges the Maoists: "To tell the truth, then the bourgeoisie of many European countries are to be called comprador bourgeoisie for their keeping close relation with and partial dependence on imperialist capital".
Fake Independence and the Mercurial Stance of Undivided Communist Party: CPM’s Hotchpotch View on Semi Colony and Neo colony
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If a man foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
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I made the mistake of eating too many starters, foolishly thinking I'd still have plenty of room for the main dishes.
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He acted foolishly when he agreed to come
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I never, not for a single moment, doubted how he felt about me, never worried that I'd have my heart broken again by another faithless man I'd foolishly trusted.
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In a few warmhearted sentences, he echoes Sasha’s pledge of undying loyalty, urges him to cheer up and not be so serious — Dr. Mandelbaum’s term foolishly earnest springs happily to his pen.
Absolute Friends
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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Foolishly, in the course of the innings, one of England's pace bowlers bowled Lillee a bouncer.
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Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
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His face softened, and he tried, foolishly, to open the car door without awakening her.
THE SCAR
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When we got back to the car, whose top I had foolishly left open, the seats were hot as griddles.
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I foolishly left the information brochures for SF Canada on my desk at home and had to fettle up something rough-and-ready on my netbook.
Montreal WorldCon Day 1
