FOOLISH

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foolish adjectiv

1. prost(esc), neghiob, nerod, nesăbuit;

that was very foolish of him a fost o neghiobie din partea lui.

2. ridicol, caraghios;

to look foolish a arăta ca o curcă plouată.

3. (înv.) mic, neînsemnat.

“Don't be foolish, Mr. Wickfield. If I have gone a little beyond what you were prepared for, I can go back, I suppose? There's no harm done.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

That is perfectly natural, and quite harmless, if the liking does not become a passion and lead one to do foolish or unmaidenly things.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

“Thou foolish old John!” quoth Aylward.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw them then, and if I do not see them now, I am not so old or so foolish as to doubt that they are there.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very foolish to run away. Mobits is not foolish.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

But again the foolish pride fought against that very word.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“Well,” said he, “if you really think I had better go: it would be foolish to bring the key for nothing.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Nay, cried Bingley, this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

“It may seem very foolish in your eyes,” I added, “but really I don’t know how you deduced it.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)