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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a silly man" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a man who behaves in a foolish or playful manner.
Example: "Despite his serious job, he often surprises everyone with his antics, proving to be a silly man at heart."
Alternatives: "a foolish man" or "a goofy man."
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I don't take you for a silly man.
As Louis speaks to her, she realizes that he isn't a silly man who loves Mary Elizabeth, but a sensible man who loves her.
"Whether it's Al Qaeda or Afghanistan, people have just felt that he's a silly man, and therefore they are not obliged to think any harder about his position".
At some point, he asked me: "Has your daddy been a silly man?" and being four, I mumbled that he had before they carried on chatting.
A country shaken by terrorism and war is unlikely to be bothered by a silly man in make-up and suspenders.
That contributed, Ms. Thomas said, to the real message behind the movie, which worked hard to be more than just a romp with a silly man who thinks he can talk to animals.
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Here pain is bearable" -and that simple credo, as delivered by Mr. Courtenay, raises a fundamentally silly man to a state of grace.
A rather silly man, he had worked for years on a book (never completed), which was to dispose of the supernatural elements in religion.
He really is a petty, silly man.
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More to the point, Quentin was a very silly man.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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