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Claiming that people with protruding ears were naturally weak-willed, for example, would seem plain silly.

GENDER IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXCHARLES KINGAUGUST 5, 2020NAUTILUS

Well, back in the early 1200s, the original sense of silly was “blessed” or, more accurately, “spiritually blessed.”

IS “SILLY” A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE WORD?CANDICE BRADLEYJULY 24, 2020EVERYTHING AFTER Z

That may sound a bit silly, but often we’re in a culture where people think a scientist or mathematician has to be the crazy person locked up in a room working by ourselves.

LACK OF DIVERSITY IN HIS FIELD HAS TROUBLED THIS MATHEMATICIANESTHER LANDHUISAPRIL 14, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS

Sometimes my friends ask questions that they’re afraid are silly.

WEIGHT LIFTING IS THIS PLANETARY SCIENTIST’S PASTIMEBRYN NELSONMARCH 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS

I suspect when we look back in 100 years, or maybe even 50 years, we’ll be astonished at how silly many of the ideas we currently hold near and dear to our hearts are actually wrong.

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Because what was so silly was that people call themselves highly verbal and wide readers, when in fact they’re illiterate when they reach science or the social sciences if they can’t evaluate numbers.

AMERICA’S MATH CURRICULUM DOESN’T ADD UP (EP. 391)STEVEN D. LEVITTOCTOBER 3, 2019FREAKONOMICS

If he would take her a little more seriously—it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!

CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES

I wonder why wise men choose silly wives always, she added consciously, playing with the reins.

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I just sit there, knocked plumb silly, almost, and looked at a big rose in the carpet.

ALEC LLOYD, COWPUNCHERELEANOR GATES

Not only good taste, but health is often sacrificed to the silly error of dressing in the extreme of fashion.

THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY

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