foolish

By the end of the 1500s, silly was used for “lacking good sense, foolish, irrational, ridiculous.”

Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment.

One strip, Foolish Grandpa and Sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.

McConnell did what he did in 2005, and he was foolish enough to boast about it in public less than two weeks before an election.

The only thing these “tests” reveal is a window into the foolish psyche of whomever applies them.

How foolish to ask what is the best education for one or seven or sixty million souls!

Now don't be foolish—stay here with Uncle George and the doctor until you cool down.

Well, of course the saying is foolish, and sounds doubly ridiculous in this age when people believe in neither God nor devil.

“That foolish fellow is going to be late,” he muttered, glancing over his paper at the clock on the chimney-piece.

I know you'll think I'm foolish, but whenever I look at her portrait I think of him.

I was foolish drunk,' he says, but there was a look in his eyes that was nasty.