Synonyms:
folly, foolishness, unwiseness
Meaning: the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
Usage examples
I'll be a good citizen and go to work and quit my foolishness.
Do you like to comb up Sundays, and all that kind of foolishness?
"Forget that scientific foolishness you absorbed when you were school ma'aming.
Then she laughed at her own foolishness, and took the "bundle," which was directed in Rose's unmistakable hand.
It is all foolishness, this craze for giving. Most things are better destroyed as soon as you are done with them.
With this foolishness I rose, thrust the beads into my pocket, and paddled home in the waning glory of the sunset.
We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage.
As soon as the merchant was gone Wali Dad made up his mind that there was only one honourable way out of the shame and distress that he had created by his foolishness, and that was--to kill himself.
Again, if you go into a noon-tea on some irritatingly hot summer day, you may discover in the darkened coolness of the tokonoma a single lily in a hanging vase; dripping with dew, it seems to smile at the foolishness of life.
And I was so pleased with these people, that I took on board with the gig one of their little tree-canoes: which was my foolishness: for gig and canoe were only three nights later washed from the decks into the middle of the sea.