How to Use foolish in a Sentence
foolish
adjective
- Those flashy clothes make her look foolish.
- He was wearing a foolish grin.
- I never thought you'd be foolish enough to believe him.
- She must feel foolish wearing those flashy clothes.
- She's been taking foolish risks.
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The duke was young and foolish, and no great threat to Napoleon.
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Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2022
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Which one will make our rankings look the most foolish by the end of the year?
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Chris Johnson and Eric Single,
SI.com,
25 June 2018
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Some of us would have used a stronger word than foolish.
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Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2024
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To the naked eye, running home would have seemed foolish.
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Joe Hill,
oregonlive,
3 June 2023
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All that said, Newsom would be foolish to kiss off the threat.
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George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Dec. 2020
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Keep in mind that this isn’t the time for foolish wand waving, okay?
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refinery29.com,
24 June 2018
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Putting the New York Yankees and the Mets in the same division is foolish.
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Steve Silverman,
Forbes,
21 Apr. 2023
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Maybe the Bills are the foolish ones, spending $300 million on a team that still has flaws.
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Ben Volin,
BostonGlobe.com,
19 July 2023
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Maybe the answer is yes, which feels like a foolish choice on their part.
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R. Eric Thomas,
The Mercury News,
26 July 2024
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The Bible says that natural man thinks the things of the spirit are foolish.
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The Rev. Mike Taylor,
baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll,
19 Mar. 2021
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The Sox also made a foolish mistake in the third inning.
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Peter Abraham,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 June 2023
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One said that the company would have been foolish not to do so.
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Aaron C. Davis, Rick Noack and Douglas MacMillan,
Anchorage Daily News,
10 July 2022
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The most foolish thing the team can do now is chase short-term success at the expense of the future.
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Rahat Huq,
Chron,
10 Aug. 2021
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Bill is back on top of his game, and those who doubted him look foolish.
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Dan Shaughnessy,
BostonGlobe.com,
19 Nov. 2021
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His anger at the Big 12 has always been misplaced and foolish.
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Jeremy Cluff,
The Arizona Republic,
26 Aug. 2022
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If the young shortstop is truly as good as gone, the Blue Jays would be foolish not to trade him.
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Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
8 Jan. 2025
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The ones who are foolish enough to post about their lives on social media.
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WSJ,
19 Oct. 2021
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Even tyrants would be foolish to pass down an iron law when a low-key change of norms would lead to the same results.
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Justin E. H. Smith,
Harper’s Magazine ,
25 May 2022
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Green Bay would be foolish to allow that same movie to have a sequel.
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Rob Reischel,
Forbes,
23 May 2021
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That four-hour car ride on the final leg of your trip, then, was both a foolish and fitting thing to do.
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Anne Lagamayo,
Longreads,
11 May 2023
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The wise and good chose Pokémon Go, while the foolish and furious chose what came to be called QAnon.
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Virginia Heffernan,
Wired,
22 Sep. 2020
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Not that Kawhi will say much at all, but any idea of anger from Toronto fans is foolish.
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Michael Shapiro,
SI.com,
13 Aug. 2019
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Men who talked with baby dolls might have been called foolish, but not now.
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Beth Thames | [email protected],
al,
23 June 2021
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Oh, by the way, the club would be foolish to sign him to a long-term deal that averages more than $40 million.
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David Moore,
Dallas News,
29 Sep. 2020
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While admirable, the plan to resettle the poor was foolish in retrospect as the Low Country soil is sandy and the weather too hot for farming.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
27 Dec. 2024
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