Sentence examples for less silly from inspiring English sources

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Plenty of epistolary novels are much finer and less silly, however, than those 18th-century romps.

If the government wants a citizenship test less silly than the current proposals, one word should do the trick: "exterminate".

"Financial advertising has gotten less silly," said Marten Hoekstra, executive vice president and marketing director at PaineWebber in New York.

A less silly depiction came in the 1952 novel The Dark Mare – conflating "dark horse" and "nightmare".

Enormous credit must be given to Strahovski for somehow making this seem less silly than it sounds.

Perhaps the firefighters could use scooters?A design for a suburb near Tampa, Florida is much less dangerous and slightly less silly.

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As Brian Graden, the network's president for entertainment put it, MTV's new shows would "focus less on silly hooks and more on young people proving themselves," because "these are the themes that are consistent with the Obama generation".

Considering that video games these days can, in their own right, cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars to create (see: Grand Theft Auto IV), asking Konami to create a Metal Gear movie for less is silly.

But all that text appears to have been copied from another, less dramatically silly, jihadist text, Black Flags From Syria, so I can award no points to the author for that stuff.

Posted by Matt • Maybe Yankees management should worry more about fielding a team that can beat the Rays and the Orioles and worry less about a silly exhibition.

In Barr's view, "the government was made to look less ominous than silly".

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