adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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This pessimistic extreme is as foolish as its optimistic predecessor.
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And yet he does things as foolish as that.
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To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese!
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She felt a brief surge of annoyance, but then dismissed it as foolish .
how
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How many people prayed at the stake? How foolish I look, kneeling like this..
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I think of how foolish I have been to bring her this present.
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Privilege? How foolish of me!
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No, of course he didn't - how foolish could she get?
so
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Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose.
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He smiled that ironic smile of his that always made me feel so foolish .
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How could she have been so thoughtless, so foolish , done something so unarguably dangerous?
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Trying to claim relationship with the rich d'Urbervilles seemed so foolish and shameful to her.
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No girl would be so foolish , especially as it is so long ago, and not your fault at all.
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Surely Lorton wouldn't be so foolish as to kill Newley?
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Why, it's so foolish .
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That his distress was so foolish , made it all the more poignant.
very
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Macbeth, although shown to be very brave and soldier-like, is also very foolish .
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It's very foolish of you, you know.
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He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go.
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That was very foolish , because relationships aren't everything.
■ NOUN
man
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I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise.
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And I, foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers.
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The foolish man built his house on sand.
thing
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They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.
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This is an understandable thing to do... and can be a wise or foolish thing to do.
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Who would do such a foolish thing ?
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All that money that might get wasted on foolish things like helping the poor.
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But, foolish thing that I am, this poor Miss Sally Godfrey runs in my head!
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These foolish things , she thought, remind me of you. ... And it was true.
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True, she opened herself up to the press and said some foolish things in her grief.
things
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These foolish things , she thought, remind me of you. ... And it was true.
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All that money that might get wasted on foolish things like helping the poor.
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True, she opened herself up to the press and said some foolish things in her grief.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a foolish decision
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I think the board of directors made a foolish choice that it will later regret.
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It was a warning she would have been foolish to ignore.
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Jan realised later that her behaviour had been very foolish .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At times his language turned crude and made him look foolish .
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Besides being heart-broken she felt foolish and a failure.
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It is foolish to think, therefore, that any social, cultural affair or any language has remained the same.
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Maybe her request sounded foolish , but the prospect of facing Robert after everything that had happened between them was disturbing.
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The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.