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foolish

[ˈfuːlɪʃ]

Definition:
1. Devoid of good sense or judgment.
2. Having or revealing stupidity.

Use 'foolish' in a sentence:

  1. He's always doing such foolish things.
  2. Foolish men have foolish dreams.
  3. The accident was my fault ─ it would be foolish to pretend otherwise.
  4. I just stood there feeling foolish and watching him.
  5. I felt foolish and a failure.
  6. Can you persuade her out of her foolish plans?
  7. Better a witty fool man than a foolish wit.
  8. His foolish act has brought a storm about his ears.
  9. Before I was foolish.
  10. It was foolish to take the test without preparation.
  11. It was rather foolish, but we all get so when we get angry.
  12. How could she have been so foolish as to fall in love with him?
  13. It's a foolish question.
  14. I am very sorry indeed for my foolish and ungrateful conduct.
  15. He's afraid of looking foolish in front of his friends.
  16. They called him foolish.
  17. We should learn from the Foolish Old Man's spirit to challenge nature.
  18. His foolish behaviour led to his eventual failure.
  19. But is he foolish?
  20. Don't do anything foolish.
  21. I didn't want him to look foolish and be laughed at.
  22. I feel that I am very foolish.
  23. His foolish behaviour may put his whole future in jeopardy.
  24. The accident was my fault— it would be foolish to pretend otherwise.
  25. That foolish deed of his will remain a blot on his escutcheon.
  26. The boy is foolish.
  27. No one can tempt him to do such a foolish thing.
  28. Foolish expenditures bankrupted him.
  29. Don't ask foolish questions.
  30. You are foolish to say so.
  31. "Enough of your foolish chatter," said the waggoner.
  32. It was foolish of her to have spent so much money on shoes.
  33. She felt that tears were unbecoming and foolish.
  34. An adult can sometimes act as foolish as a little child.
  35. You ought to be ashamed of your foolish behaviour.
  36. It was a very foolish thing to do.
  37. It is foolish to risk skin cancer.
  38. You think you are clever, on the contrary, I assure that you are very foolish.
  39. I refuse to entertain such a foolish idea.
  40. He refused to take orders from such a foolish fellow.
  41. Oh, how foolish I was!
  42. For the same foolish reason, I have lost the sight of both eyes.
  43. Thy foolish reading hath wrought its woeful work at last, and ta'en thy wit away.
  44. Making people feel foolish is emphatically not my strategy.
  45. For others, especially the young and foolish, the state will temper justice with mercy.
  46. It would be foolish to raise hopes unnecessarily.
  47. It would be foolish to generalize from a single example.
  48. Any action on the basis of such fragmentary evidence would be foolish.
  49. She's just a vain, foolish woman.
  50. I feel how foolish I am to entertain doubts.
  51. How foolish I am to entertain doubts.
  52. You ought to be ashamed of your foolish behavior.