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foolishness

[ foo-lish-nis ]

noun

  1. lack of wisdom or good judgment; foolish quality:

    Oh, the foolishness of thinking that wealth brings happiness!

  2. foolish talk, ideas, or behavior:

    How could someone with such a clever mind as yourself talk such foolishness?

  3. a foolish act, error, habit, etc.:

    Shakespeare, who looks at all men as if from Mount Olympus, notes their foibles and foolishnesses, and yet smiles on them all.



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Other Words From

  • o·ver·fool·ish·ness noun
  • un·fool·ish·ness noun

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Example Sentences

At the first glance I saw she had been punished for her foolishness.

"This is foolishness," Reid said after the vote of the continued obstinacy.

Washington lectures London on the foolishness of debating process instead of getting to grips with real problems?

Outside of those examples, though, the idea that anyone is losing freedoms in this country is foolishness.

Neo-soul singer Jill Scott has little time for “foolishness.”

I see no infinite goodness here, but only the infinite foolishness of sentimental superstition.

Jess carried this idea in her mind, although she was not as much troubled by her schoolmates foolishness as was Mother Wit.

Or perhaps a species of snob who cannot see the difference between his own foolishness and the foolishness of others.

As favour and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

She even tried to sing again, in her faint sweet voice, some of the dear old songs, laughing softly at her own foolishness.

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