foolishness

Example Sentences

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Still, foolishness can sometimes bring good results; there are good results here, and some less than good.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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

But even if a sketch doesn’t quite work, you could rest in knowing its discomfort is temporary, with the irritant or foolishness changing every few minutes.

From Salon • Oct. 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