foolishly

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• 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.