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Inflections of 'folly' (n): npl: follies

Collocations for "folly"

Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "folly" in context.

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folly

n

it would be a folly to [think, do, try]
was his greatest folly
(narrowly) avoided a folly
that would be sheer folly!
committed an act of sheer folly
carried away by the follies of youth
the [actor's, celebrity's, royal's] follies
a folly of a [building, palace, mansion]

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'folly' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Forum discussions with the word(s) "folly" in the title:

a crush of finery and folly - English Only forum
act of folly - English Only forum
bear the folly in the eyes? - English Only forum
Bradford magnate's folly - English Only forum
folly - English Only forum
folly by name and folly by nature - English Only forum
folly of royalty - English Only forum
folly with her mother - English Only forum
I see the folly of doing something - English Only forum
It might all seem mere nouveau riche folly were it not for - English Only forum
see deeply into human folly - English Only forum
So I think at this hour, when I look back to the crisis ...I was unconscious of folly at the instant - English Only forum
some fifty yards to the east of the Folly along a tract of drier land - English Only forum
swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant. - English Only forum
the criminal folly of mankind - English Only forum
the event had shown with what folly( ) - English Only forum
The folly fell upon my own shoulders. - English Only forum
The Miss Guests saw an alleviation to the sorrow of witnessing a folly in their Rector - English Only forum
There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society... hurry a man to its commission - English Only forum
These boys of light are curdlers in their folly, - English Only forum
This weary traveler thought he had witnessed every species of human folly - English Only forum
turn his folly to account - English Only forum
when Pyp twisted him around into some folly - English Only forum

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