Thesaurus / follies
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synonyms for follies
- absurdity
- craziness
- foolishness
- idiocy
- indiscretion
- lunacy
- madness
- recklessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- daftness
- fatuity
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inadvisability
- inanity
- irrationality
- obliquity
- rashness
- senselessness
- triviality
- unsoundness
- vice
- dottiness
- dumb thing to do
- dumb trick
- preposterousness
- witlessness
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Whatever my follies may have been as a young man, I am at least incapable of wronging my wife as a married one.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODMy serious turn and studious habits have preserved me alike from the follies of dissipation and from the bustle of intrigue.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTThe follies of youth have a basis in sound reason, just as much as the embarrassing questions put by babes and sucklings.
THE POCKET R.L.S.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOf course, he told Violet none of the follies which had cost poor Kennedy the loss both of popularity and self-respect.
JULIAN HOMEDEAN FREDERIC W. FARRARHe was even represented swung up in a basket in his own thinking-shop and giving utterance to innumerable heresies and follies.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANModern religions are but follies of old times rejuvenated or presented in some new form.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERHe is familiar, and in a manner identified, with the very follies he is so generously decrying.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANIt would appear that this God created the nations but to be toys for the passions and follies of His representatives upon earth.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERI believe, my dear friends, that I have given you a sufficient preventative against all these follies.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERHis great rival in satire was Horace, who laughed at follies; but Juvenal, more austere, exaggerated and denounced them.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD