Sentence examples for Foolishness from inspiring English sources
The word "foolishness" is a correct and commonly used word in written English
It is a noun that means a lack of good sense or judgment. Example: His constant foolishness cost him his job and reputation.
noun
The state of being foolish.
It's such a period piece of foolishness: him for losing the plot, and America for being more worried about a man crying than his wife being traduced.
In retrospect, the trip was an exercise in youthful foolishness: I went alone, landing in Havana with nowhere to stay, no friends, and very little money.
Folks here in the middle of America pride ourselves on a preference for facts over foolishness, deeds over declarations.
His greatest foolishness, though, is to try to solve constitutional issues that affect the whole of the United Kingdom with proposals that are both partial – aimed at England alone – and partisan: aimed at advantaging the Tories.
The overwhelming arrogance of the listeners and the foolishness of the last administration has left the US government in an unnecessary hole.
It doesn't excuse the divisiveness or foolishness of austerity, but it will be very popular.
One of those early-20th-century English anthropologist travels to Africa to expose the foolishness of what they presume to be "primitive" beliefs.
Perhaps the most persistent attempt to expose the foolishness of the belief in ghosts is Scooby-Doo.
What will look most odd over the course of a few decades is how Fifa resolutely opposed technology as an aid to referees for years, not showing the slightest interest, despite a succession of embarrassing mistakes, right up until Frank Lampard's non-goal in Bloemfontein in 2010 showed them the foolishness of their ways.
It is the denial of Scottish folklore, far more than the personal inconvenience, that fills me with rage at the foolishness of the city fathers.
Many derivational suffixes are common to most Slavic languages e.g., the very productive suffix -stvo (as in Russian khristian-stvo 'Christianity,' Ukrainian pobratym-stvo 'fraternity,' Polish głup-stwo 'foolishness, trifle,' Macedonian golem-stvo 'high status, arrogance').
