(n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
(n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
Example Sentences:
(1) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
(2) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.
(3) As if to prove her silly dilettantism, when a journalist asked Dasha about her favourite artists, she replied, "I'm, like, really bad at remembering names."
(4) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(5) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
(6) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In an essay for the Hollywood Reporter, Camille Paglia writes that Swift promotes a ‘silly, regressive public image’.
(8) His selection on Twitter, he added, was “all in no particular order, off the top of my head, and the most incomplete of lists”, put together in response to Talese’s “silliness”.
(9) As soon as they saw how serious it was, they switched from being my silly, fun friends into being the most reliable and amazing people.
(10) They were all young, and it was a party house, devoted to games of hide and seek, music, silly practical jokes and food fights in the drawing room.
(11) As a result, one or two wrote some rather silly things in their reports,” Wilshaw said.
(12) ‘Silly things said by a silly man’ To be honest I really don’t care what BoJo says.
(13) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
(14) Watching “our lads” pretending to mouth questionable lyrics about God giving the Queen near-immortal life, and her being the victor when she’s not really of fighting age, is silly.
(15) Imagine my relief this week then, when I found out that I can now let go of all my silly gay politics.
(16) We have referees who are unfamiliar with that silly "Goaltender Interference" technicality.
(17) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
(18) "But they're so silly that I must say I never found them intimidating."
(19) Just as certain songs become inextricably associated in our minds with certain eras (before the invention of iPods, that is, after which everyone could walk around every day with all the songs in the world on shuffle), so too do silly trends.
(20) In 2014, she began working as a writer at Late Night with Seth Meyers; her first standup spot on that show began with a joke that typified both her silliness and confidence.
Silty
Definition:
(a.) Full of silt; resembling silt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lanzhou, home to 3.6 million people alongside the silty Yellow River, already has major environmental concerns.
(2) Auxotrophic recipient cells (thr- leu- thi- rpsL) were incubated in a sandy and a silty clay loam soil, and the transducing phage lysates from prototrophic strains carrying transposon 10(Tn10) in either purE or aroL regions were added.
(3) To determine whether aflatoxin was bound to the silty clay loam soil, aflatoxin B1 was added to this soil and incubated for 20 days.
(4) In a silty clay soil, cropped to sugarbeets, inoculum density remained low with only a slight increase throughout the growing season.
(5) Aflatoxin decomposition proceeded most slowly in the silty clay loam soil.
(6) The impressive way your backside emits high-pressure jets of hot fluid, like the Hulk squeezing silty boiled water from a Fairy Liquid bottle by clenching it abruptly in his fist.
(7) Long still uses the silty mud from the Avon in many works, including some new pieces he will be creating in the gallery.
(8) Comparison of the radiation map with a geological one indicates that "high" values of the exposure rates correspond to areas with silty deposits.
(9) The effects of silty clay loam soil on aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) absorption were investigated when added to the diets of chicks fed aflatoxin-contaminated rations.
(10) In sandy loam field soil (pH 7.1) the retarding effect was more pronounced than in silty loamy sand (pH 7.8) of meadow.
(11) Fifty percent of the infection herds were in the southwestern "driftless area" and the southeast uplands; 43% occurred in the western part of the northern silty and loamy uplands; the other 7% were scattered in the east and east-central part of the state.
(12) Populations of these 3 species were more dense by silty or swampy sides with shrub vegetation and poor oxygenated, acidic water rich in organic materials.
(13) Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of 14C-labeled pentachlorophenol (PCP) was examined in nitrogen aerated, moist Hagerstown silty clay loam with or without cellulose amendments.
(14) The mite was discovered in two disturbed habitats in Ohio, including silty clay loam in a suburban prairie of grasses, shrubs and small trees.
(15) The particle size estimated by shifting and sedimentation shows that the crushed talcs are silty, whereas the only talc not processed is sandy.
(16) • The earliest footprints in Australia, at least 450 prints in 22 tracks of adults and children, left in hardened silty clay at Willandra Lakes in New South Wales – identified by scientists in 2003 though local people said they already knew of them – have been dated to some 20,000 years ago.
(17) Survival of Rhizoctonia solani in precolonized tablebeet seed was greater in a light-textured sandy loam (SL 1) than in a heavy-textured silty clay loam (SiCL).
(18) World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania Read more Obscured by the Bass Strait’s silty seabed, the fault in the cable is yet to be identified, let alone repaired, and things are getting desperate.
(19) The degradation of ring-labeled 14C-phenthoate in a moist sandy loam and silty clay loam soil was studied.
(20) The volatilization rate of DBCP applied in water was higher from sandy and silty loam soils than from clay soil.