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look foolish

noun as in egg on one's face

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“I would look foolish if I said people could have prepared,” she says.

There was no artifice to the question, no intent to make his dad look foolish.

Not only do these "gifts" raise tax issues, they also infantilize the senator and makes him look foolish.

There are moments in which shameless profligates look foolish and feel that they are contemptible.

And as for a dozen sets of underclothes, that won't wear once they see the washtub, they look foolish to me.

There was something impressive in the firmness with which he refused to allow the cowboys to make him look foolish.

"But suppose they are looking on and laughing," said Esther, who had a perfect horror of being made to look foolish.

The runner is caught easily at second base and it makes him look foolish.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to look foolish, such as: abashment, chagrin, embarrassment, mortification, red face, and self-consciousness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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