foolishness
Example Sentences
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Like Mr. Platner, Mr. Duke claimed to have left all that youthful foolishness behind him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
And what he sees, Page argues, is our own reflection — humanity, in all its fractured and flailing self-destructive foolishness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
Mr. Clooney has never had a better role, and he burrows deeply into it with a self-interrogating combination of narcissism, foolishness, bravado and charisma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Diomande's act of foolishness just put the tin hat on it.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
The only fear was not of death, was not of the war, was of blind stupid human frailty, of blind proud foolishness that could lose it all.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
