silliness
Example Sentences
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In family touch football, there’s no silliness about the receiver needing to keep both feet or one foot in bounds.
But Weitz’s script doesn’t give her that much to say, and wavers between silliness and social consciousness without making room for its story.
From New York Times
In jazzing up the tale for the screen, Rogers sands down the somberness — Baltese is all fuzzy blues and pinks, with nary a trace of postwar grit — while turning up the silliness for gimmicky thrills.
From New York Times
The rock singer brought some sense of silliness to the Bermondsey by-election which was otherwise a deeply brutal contest.
From BBC
“They recognized both Kate and myself as active collaborators in the creation of these people. We imbued them with a little more fun and silliness. But without ever losing the seriousness that underlies the show.”
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
