Sentence examples for foolish and absurd from inspiring English sources

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He has swatted away suggestions for continuing the government after further negotiations, arguing that "the things happening are absolutely foolish and absurd".

A DECADE ago, a suggestion to head downtown for dinner in Durham, N.C., would have been derided for falling somewhere between foolish and absurd.

"It would be foolish and absurd of them if they expect that we will join or leave a meeting at their bidding".

Now wee that were there, thought this a foolish and absurd toy, neither wist we what to make of it.

In 1616, an Inquisitorial commission unanimously declared heliocentrism to be "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture".

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This is foolish and (frankly) idiotic.

Charlotte Baines, for Harness, said her client apologied for his "foolish, absurd and reckless behaviour" and said he was "ashamed and disgusted" by what he had done.

Walgreen's position is "foolish, it's absurd, and every employer and health plan in America knows that," says Mark Merritt, president of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, an industry group.

Men are never more foolish or absurd than when they "make a pass".

And absurd assumptions were added.

Funny and absurd.

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