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synonyms for folly
- 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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How to use folly in a sentence
If there is one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it.
Neil Sheehan, N.Y. Times reporter who obtained Pentagon Papers and chronicled ‘Bright Shining Lie’ of Vietnam, dies at 84 | Harrison Smith | January 7, 2021 | Washington PostThe folly of inferring 364 days from just one seems obvious.
First day of new year unusually chilly, unusually wet | Martin Weil | January 2, 2021 | Washington PostPhilpott, a reporter for Mother Jones, points to the nearby Imperial Valley in Southern California as an example of this folly.
Why people still starve in an age of abundance | Bobbie Johnson | December 17, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
On a November afternoon programmed for football, it’s understandable to get lost in tradition and consider the NFL’s difficulty containing the virus to be inevitable follies.
The coronavirus has turned the NFL into a joke, and nobody should be laughing | Jerry Brewer | November 30, 2020 | Washington PostIf 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the folly of assuming that extreme scenarios will never come to pass.
It was not until after the Challenger accident that the folly of this approach was realized.
Yeah, too many Democrats signed on to this hideous folly, but the war in Iraq was obviously a GOP production.
But in the long term, Moscow can be made to regret its folly.
In wisely sidestepping the hubristic folly of trying to sum up his own time, he achieved a sort of timelessness.
Peter Matthiessen Was One of the Greatest Writers of a Great Generation | Malcolm Jones | April 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhatever the reason behind all this folly, the Georgian people have earned their right to some form of protection by the West.
Obama Tells Georgia to Forget About NATO After Encouraging It to Join | Will Cathcart | March 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Pearls of Thought | Maturin M. BallouThat he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftI am ready Madam,—for I have sufficiently experienced the folly of my presuming to decline it.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterThis new-found joy I long pursued in secret, afraid lest it should be discovered and despised as a folly.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
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