silly
adjective
weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish.
sillily
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a word derived from
silly.
Example Sentences
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After Monty Python, it has been observed that people do indeed walk sillily, as they do other things in a similar fashion.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2014
The trade of France has been spared sillily, there has been dead stagnation.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
“You must learn patience–Mrs. Upton,” said I, while we both laughed sillily over the title, as others have done before us, no doubt.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
But while some of them, by their persistency, wriggled into "society," the stern reality remained that their compensations did not increase, because their owners sillily diminished them in what they called, maintaining their social position.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
The old woman stood dazed, and gazing sillily.
From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore
