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How to use foolish in a sentence

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However, it would be a mistake to suppose that Walker was foolish or unobservant.
His ideas are obviously foolish, easily disproved, an affront to any reasoning person.
We've made foolish promises, and it wouldn't be right to overburden those future younger workers by keeping them.
Yes, the artefacts recovered are of historic significance, but it would be foolish to pretend they have no monetary value.
It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves.
She was wise in some ways, foolish in others, strong and yet weak, stubborn and yet compliant.
I suddenly realized how foolish I was acting, scared witless by a simple dream.
So at the moment, touch wood, we have not got reports of epidemics, but it would be foolish for us to assume that we're through the worst.
England do not have anyone to come in and work miracles and it would be foolish to pick a new team and hope for the best.
Of them all, Sainte-Beuve alone refrained from hurting me with foolish words.
If you guess right you will appear to be a genius, if you guess wrong you will look foolish.
I think they are often wrong-headed and foolish, but nobody deserves to be indiscriminately beaten because of their political beliefs.
No one would want to be so foolish as to suggest that this poem is an allegory of trouble in the Church.
It would be foolish to expect democracy to sweep across the Middle East, transforming the political landscape in a matter of years.
In any case, upon confirmation, you are required to ship this order on the next business day, even if you think the buyer is foolish.
Of course, it may be foolish to assume that the two references to peace present an irreconcilable contradiction.
Some foolish part of me thought I could walk straight back into the studio and pick right up where I left off, but this is really not the case.
The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in, while excitedly imploring me not to do anything so foolish.
What happened to me was foolish because my 30th high school reunion is this summer and here I sit broken-hearted.
The family patriarch, Jack, makes a foolish decision that affects the rest of the family for decades.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I prefer open attacks to the foolish praise and adulations of friends, for, the truth is, flattery is always paid for.
Then Ned, from a baseball standpoint of safety, did what might be termed a foolish thing.
And thus many are found who are silly enough to imbitter their own lives and the lives of others by such foolish superstitions.
It was breaking an unwritten law of the rangeland, and worse, it was doing something unbusiness-like and foolish.
The rainmaker sent up his vain, his fatuous, foolish, infinitesimal breath of smoke.
The ebionite who kissed the Pentateuch, and the Gnostic who tore it up, were both foolish because both ignorant.
If monsters with no information about us landed, they might perpetrate some massacres with the entirely foolish idea of cowing us.
In order to apply the severest test the query should be a crassly foolish one.
I did not act in a foolish or disorderly manner at all, but Tennessee and elk River were in me.
Anyhow, five young Englishmen out of every ten of his class are just as blond and foolish.
These things being so, it is foolish to say that these victories and this strifeful gain are matters of merely racial application.
Mebbe you spent it like a gent fer booze, mebbe you was foolish and went to some strong-arm shack and got rolled.
They say with those foolish israelites, 'Let not God speak to us, lest we die.
The Walls of Jericho being a long, preachy and rather foolish tirade against a game of cards, my apparent digression is necessary.
The foolish men will say, What hath turned them from their keblah, towards which they formerly prayed?
You must not get the foolish notion that any man has a speculative eye on me, because it is not true.
Put about a cup of ale, is this not better than your foolish French kickshaw claret.
Though very far from being a pessimist, he was not a man of foolish illusions.
But his letter to the Chancellor of the exchequer seemed to be merely foolish.
Ambition is surely the most foolish and misjudging of all terrestrial passions.
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