Sentence examples for clearly silly from inspiring English sources

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It's clearly silly to hold a hearing about contraception and not hear from anyone who might actually take birth control.

The first point is clearly silly; it employs the same reasoning that leads some people to believe that if only terrorists, tyrants, and jihadists would read our constitution, the Federalist papers,  and  a few pages of John Rawls, they would come to their senses and become followers of democracy.

Young, brash Yank Freddy reinvents himself as a war hero who needs psychotherapy to get him out of his wheelchair; urbane, mature Englishman Lawrence tries to thwart him by in turn posing as a heartless headshrinker... Clearly silly, in other words.

For his troubles, he has found himself denounced as a "genocide denier", which is clearly silly.Still, I'm not sure I agree with the argument.

"We all got a little mesmerized into thinking that luxury demand would continue at a pace unabated, which, in retrospect, was clearly silly," Martin says over breakfast at an inn near his vacation home in Walland, Tennessee.

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So clearly this silly method doesn't work.

"We all got a little mesmerized into thinking that luxury demand would continue at a pace unabated, which, in retrospect, clearly was silly," Martin says over breakfast at an inn near his vacation home in Walland, Tenn.

Nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but linking wireless router use to copyright infringement, as if buying the latest Linksys or Netgear automatically makes you a criminal, was clearly pretty silly.

Fergie goes on Oprah: can't wait for the car crash The Duchess of York is clearly a very silly woman.

In the Call of Duty games you're very clearly playing a silly video game that doesn't dare try to be "heavy" or "weighty".

Because I had clearly knocked myself silly, I decided I would drive myself to the clinic.

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