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foolish

fooh lish

  • a  devoid of good sense or judgment
    foolish remarks
    a foolish decision
  • s  having or revealing stupidity

  • The foolish should not have taken on mortgages they had no realistic possibility of paying.
  • McDonnell specializes in studying wild horses and has occasionally seen the roughsometimes lethaltreatment feral dogs receive when they're foolish enough to spook the group.
  • Foolish lenders become the enablers of foolish borrowers.
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  • President Bush in International Herald Tribune
    We have heard this foolish delusion before,Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared, 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to...
  • Richard Shelby in Slate
    I am concerned that Treasury's proposal is neither workable nor comprehensive despite its enormous price tag,Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the banking committee, said. "It would be foolish to waste massive sums...

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