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silly

/ˈsɪl.i/ adverb C2
  1. Sillily: in a silly manner. (colloquial)

Comparative sillier · Superlative silliest

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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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 173 · C1
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 10 · C1
I’m so afraid I’ll do something silly or forget to do something I should do.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 169 · C1
The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 14 · B2

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