Sentence examples for acting foolishly from inspiring English sources

The phrase "acting foolishly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is behaving in a silly or unwise manner.
Example: "Despite the warnings, he continued acting foolishly, ignoring the potential consequences of his actions."
Alternatives: "behaving irrationally" or "conducting oneself foolishly".

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In truth, I had been acting foolishly.

"It's very hard to write regulations that will keep people from acting foolishly, particularly when acting foolishly has proven very profitable over the preceding few years," he said.

He is wise, but not above laughing when a know-it-all white guy is acting foolishly.

Just keep telling them that the problem is that they are much too clever, on a much higher plane, and they might stop acting foolishly.

If Americans were to take on the social responsibility to care for AIDS sufferers around the world, we might be acting foolishly, but we would undeniably enhance our country's prestige.

People love to think this way when bad things happen to others: that they brought it on themselves by acting foolishly.

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Perhaps next time you could think before you start acting so foolishly.

"If everybody's going to go get themselves in an uproar over it, they're acting pretty foolishly".

To have so many people acting so foolishly required the same kind of delusion, only this time around, it was about housing prices.

Sir Malcolm Rifkind told the BBC that he believed the MPs were acting very foolishly and were showing poor judgement.

They're also encouraged to act foolishly.

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