silly
/ˈsɪl.i/ noun C2- A silly person.
- A term of address.
- A mistake.
Plural sillies
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It had begun among the boys, but soon spread to the girls, and all the silly things that were done in Avonlea that summer because the doers thereof were “dared” to do them would fill a book by themselves.
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
I’m so afraid I’ll do something silly or forget to do something I should do.
The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.”
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