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Word entry · 9 letters

foolishly

Best crossword clue

"Unwisely"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈfuːlɪʃli/Part of speech adverbSorted fhilloosyStarts with FEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. without good sense or judgment

Word origin

From Middle English folysly, folysschly; equivalent to foolish + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • He dressed foolishly to entertain the children.
  • I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural aukwardness.
  • “Nothing to speak of,” said Adam Woodcock, answering for the boy—“a foolish quarrel with me, which was more foolishly told over again to my honoured lady, cost the poor boy his place.[…]”

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