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Definition of Foolishly
1. Adverb. Without good sense or judgment. "He acted foolishly when he agreed to come"
Definition of Foolishly
1. adv. In a foolish manner.
Definition of Foolishly
1. Adverb. In a foolish manner. ¹
2. Adverb. Without good judgment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foolishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foolishly
Literary usage of Foolishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"To expect foolishly, to lose time by delaying without reason. ... Quitta
rendered, "expects time foolishly, and delays;" GL ..."
2. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... that was one step towards doing justice to him, whom their order have so much,
so foully, and, if they knew their own interest, so foolishly slandered. ..."
3. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"... foolishly the other day, and spakest against thy conscience and reason, insomuch
that thy hearers cried out 4 against thee.' So I left him, ..."
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