folly
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Perhaps Thucydides had something to say about the folly of war that they wouldn’t have appreciated had they remained civilians.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Chancellor Rachel Reeves had already expressed frustration at what she called Trump's "folly" in starting the war without a "clear exit plan".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
The two men strolled around the grounds of the castle, taking in the pointless folly of the battlements and arrow slits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
It also sets up the acute psychology that drives Magellan: obsessive curiosity warping into enforced Christian conversion, a consequential folly to which the filmmaker adds his own historical take.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
“He came too late, though, and this folly... buying sellswords, loosing two dragons on the city ... that was madness and worse than madness. That was treason.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing folly
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