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From the M-W Editors
Examples of foolishness in a Sentence
the foolishness of going off to search for the fountain of youth
couldn't listen to another second of their foolishness, so I told them to be quiet
Recent Examples of foolishness from the Web
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Fortunately, one legislative leader had the common sense and courage to stop the foolishness.
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Recent research findings published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition debunk this foolishness again.
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The latter got crossways with Senator Angus King, Independent of Maine, and the Mustache of Righteousness was having none of Coats's foolishness.
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She was cast as a woman so hopelessly immature that the ensemble around her functioned as a support system, and what little plot existed was driven by her impulsive foolishness.
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For any of them to have come out and backed Trump’s credibility against Comey’s credibility would have taken an act of masochism, or sheer foolishness.
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Jacobsen’s admirable deadpan style made me first believe that her book is an exposé of government foolishness.
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KROQ 106.7 FM Kevin & Bean’s April Foolishness returns for a ninth year with an all-new line-up featuring Bill Burr, Anjelah Johnson, David Koechner, Jimmy Pardo, Adam Ray, Jonah Ray and Taylor Williamson.
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Sadly, that has come true, and two state troopers have paid the price for this foolishness with their lives.
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First Known Use of foolishness
15th century
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