Sentence examples for outright silly from inspiring English sources

Of course, he has made his mistakes, some of them outright silly.

We are left with the question of why, if regulations are usually a legitimate response to mischievous games played by some parties in the private sector, these regulations are often so inchoate, if not outright silly.

Such estimates are outright silly.

"One of our ideas is that we make things fun, sometimes outright silly," said Matt Singer.

And if those things aren't outright silly, they're ill-advised for any number of reasons.

Being a little goofy is fine, but don't outright be silly on stage.

We're living in a country where tens of millions of so-called conservatives would rather embrace outright and absurdly silly paranoid lies, go bankrupt, fail, lose our place in history and saddle ourselves with virtually infinite debt than work constructively with a moderate, decent, smart, kind and honest black man.

It would be silly and outright wrong to suggest Rare invented the console first-person shooter, since there were plenty that came first: the SNES ports of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, for starters.

His crude take-downs, threats and his outright lies, have proven outrageous and silly, but relentless and must-read morning fodder.

As soon as it was published, Sokal fessed up in another journal (Lingua Franca, May 1996), revealing that his article was a sham, describing it as "a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense... structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics] he could find about mathematics and physics".

(Spicer later said that Trump's commitment to the NATO charter was implicit and that it was "a bit silly" to expect him to state it outright).