talk foolishly
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“I tell you that you talk foolishly, woman,” Mr. Rodriguez said.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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Mission school-girls, feeling themselves secure on the mission premises, sometimes in their school-girl talk foolishly made disparaging remarks about it.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill
Maunder, mawn′dėr, v.i. to beg: to whine like a beggar, to grumble: to mutter, to talk foolishly, to drivel.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
"You must not talk foolishly," said the little old lady with a frown.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
She began to talk foolishly, and said that she had been under the vessel's bottom.
From The History of Mary Prince A West Indian Slave by Prince, Mary