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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

Lower yet when, despite all his vanishing reserve, all his dignity and exclusiveness, he laughed sillily and said: “Just what I had decided to do—two queens and an ace.”

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood

You look so sillily, so meanly, As if you were but witted half.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Still more sillily the present Government has accepted his responsibility, and is pledged to bring in a measure of reform next year.

From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Tocqueville, Alexis de

He saith, Sir, I love your judgment; whom do you prefer For the best linguist? and I sillily Said, that I thought Calepine's Dictionary.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant