0 the quality of being unwise, stupid, or not showing good judgment:
the foolishness of youth
She has already apologised for her foolishness.
She is too old for such foolishness.
He laughed at his own foolishness.
Lightning would continue to illuminate, at least in political rhetoric, the foolishness of the people and the experts alike.
The father's wildly inappropriate grin implies escapist tipsiness, foolishness, and immoderacy generally.
The irrigation systems died from our own foolishness and our negligence.
The foolishness is glaring in the case of finitely iterated prisoners' dilemmas or centipede games.
One official reported that 'to the masses of the people, sanitation is foolishness'.
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estupidez [feminine]…
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bêtise [feminine], folie [feminine], stupidité…
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kebodohan…
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die Torheit…
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dumskap [masculine], fjollethet, lettsindighet…
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hloupost, nerozum…
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tåbelighed, latterlighed…
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