Sentence examples for felt silly for from inspiring English sources

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I felt silly for worrying, a waddling pregnant-lady cliché.

But he just continued to dance and play, and I felt silly for expecting anything different.

When he saw his daughter for the first time, his reservations faded and he felt silly for even having them.

Mostly, I felt silly for this reaction, which I was convinced was over the top, because I knew neither had intended to make me feel that way.

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Giving up the idea of a wedding, or worse, being made to feel silly for wanting one (despite my ambivalence), felt like another thing forfeited.

Don't you feel silly for paying £200,000 for that spray-painted picture of a monkey now?! Peter Hitchens could have done you one for a fraction of the price!

So, our initial reaction was to believe the medical staff and we were almost made to feel silly for questioning them," said Helen.

At the very least, it's a damned good way to make LG feel silly for not doing this with every model of the LG Chocolate ever.

Don't feel silly for asking the question though: as this great piece from 2016 in National Geographic outlines, this has been asked for decades now by some very sharp minds.

But what's more irksome is that, when it's eventually proven a hoax, the only one who capitalizes is Floris — everyone else just feels silly for being gullible — and maybe even a little cheated.

The market's familiar tone made me feel silly for attending alone.

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