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foolishness

Foolishness is the state of being foolish. If something is pure foolishness, it is a foolish or bad idea.

foolishness

(= folly) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly (= folly) the quality of being rash and foolish trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness (= stupidity) a stupid mistake

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Simple sentences

If it had not been for your foolishness, we would never have been in that trouble.
Picasso was no clown. He was a sarcastic commentator on a confused age, a great archivist of humanity's foolishness.
That is the height of foolishness.
He who lives without any foolishness is less wise than he believes he is.
I'm getting endlessly annoyed by this foolishness.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
Believing everything is weakness, and believing nothing is foolishness.
One can sacrifice oneself for one's own ideas, but not for the foolishness of others.

Movie subtitles

No, forget my foolishness.
Foolishness.
All this foolishness in you is because you're young.
We've just reaped the fruits of your foolishness.
Out of foolishness, I can't stand you any longer.
You won't rub my back through anything, including my foolishness.
There's one way to undo your foolishness.
Think of the risk you're exposing us to with your foolishness.
The poor child is about to pay for your foolishness.
What foolishness!
This flying around from Palm Springs to St Moritz to the Riviera, he'd think it was foolishness.
I want to be a good wife, and have this child without any foolishness.
You wouldn't do any such foolishness.
Burn it. I want to have nothing to do with foolishness.
He paid the penalty for his foolishness.
His name is Holmes, or Homes or some such foolishness.
That night in Paris, you were ready to give up all this foolishness for me.
I got my neck bowed. Well, can't we just stop this foolishness and sit under a tree?
It forgive some foolishness.
A woman as old as me She'll commit for a man she likes The biggest foolishness in the world.
We pay our taxes for the school, not for Hans to fill their heads with foolishness.
This is foolishness.
Stop this foolishness.
Oh, what foolishness.
Will you stop this foolishness?
What foolishness. Unbelievable.
It sounded like romantic foolishness. He wants to go hunting now?
Father often scolds me for my foolishness.
I have no time for such foolishness.
A young girl's foolishness.
This flying around from Palm Springs to St. Moritz to the Riviera, he'd think it was foolishness.

News and current affairs

In Europe today, impatient Greeks have doubtless derived some encouragement from excoriations of bankers' foolishness by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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