noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
human
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He's become the pastor of our class, versed in all the range of human folly and fallibility.
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It shows pleasure, pain and human folly .
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That such a monument should now require a damp course is a suitably bizarre commentary on human folly .
sheer
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Throwing them away is sheer folly .
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In part two: A slice of history.The birthday cake that was sheer folly .
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Their lack of ease with each other is tangible and to pretend otherwise is sheer folly .
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I happen to believe in miracles, but it would be sheer folly to depend on them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He dyed doves various bright colours to fly around and adorn the folly and the town.
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In fact, the only social folly I committed was to pretend I understood about contraception.
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Is it mad to spend £1 million on a folly ?
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Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly .
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So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go.
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Why was it designated romantic folly ?