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foolishly

/foo-lish/US // ˈfu lɪʃ //UK // (ˈfuːlɪʃ) //

愚蠢地,傻乎乎地,愚蠢地认为,傻乎乎

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered: unwise: a foolish action;a foolish speech.
    • : lacking forethought or caution.
    • : trifling, insignificant, or paltry.

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Examples

  • Not only that, but a lot of their male family members — brothers, brothers-in-law, and fathers — had volunteered unsolicited opinions about how foolish they had been.

  • When Christians believe and propagate foolish things like QAnon, they make it even harder for others to listen.

  • I think the coronavirus response, which has been incompetent and foolish, has probably also contributed to their grievances.

  • In Lukashenko’s Belarus, independent political leaders are seen as brave yet reckless, even foolish, for voluntarily jumping into the spotlight and risking his wrath.

  • 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.

  • Bradlee felt deceived by his friends but, “with both of them gone from my life, resentment seemed foolish.”

  • It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.

  • For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.

  • More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.

  • They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem.

  • Feeling sixteen and very foolish, she sank to the edge of a chair and muttered something about the charm of the room.