sillily
- 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
And if she's rather sillily fond of him, she's likely to spoil him frightfully.
From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
Lord John Russell, very sillily, promised two years ago a new Reform Bill.
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
“Good-night, Colonel, and sleep it off,” said Wallis, rising from the side of a man whom he believed to be sillily drunk and altogether untrustworthy.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
