silly

Claiming that people with protruding ears were naturally weak-willed, for example, would seem plain silly.

Well, back in the early 1200s, the original sense of silly was “blessed” or, more accurately, “spiritually blessed.”

That may sound a bit silly, but often we’re in a culture where people think a scientist or mathematician has to be the crazy person locked up in a room working by ourselves.

Sometimes my friends ask questions that they’re afraid are silly.

I suspect when we look back in 100 years, or maybe even 50 years, we’ll be astonished at how silly many of the ideas we currently hold near and dear to our hearts are actually wrong.

Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”

Aside from reaching an international audience, leaving Oz had another benefit—no more silly intrusions into her privacy.

It is loathed by some critics who find it patronizing, silly, and superficial.

So, happy 20th birthday to this proudly silly fashion classic.

It was sexy, silly, and—in those relatively modest times—sensational.

If he would take her a little more seriously—it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!

I wonder why wise men choose silly wives always, she added consciously, playing with the reins.

I just sit there, knocked plumb silly, almost, and looked at a big rose in the carpet.

Not only good taste, but health is often sacrificed to the silly error of dressing in the extreme of fashion.

Think of carelessly carrying a hundred dollars in a silly purse like that!