(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.
Unsensible
Definition:
(a.) Insensible.
Example Sentences:
(1) A P-wave that falls within the total atrial refractory interval (TARI) remains unsensed and one that falls beyond the TARI is sensed.
(2) This form of upper rate behavior eliminated the longer cycle (containing the unsensed P wave) that occurs at the end of the pacemaker Wenckebach sequence during traditional DDD pacing with ventricular-based lower rate timing.
(3) The presence of two consecutively unsensed beats within one timing cycle (automatic or escape interval) during tachycardia suggests normal function of the noise sampling period of this particular pulse generator, rather than a true sensing problem.
(4) The tachycardia was initiated by the coincidence of an unsensed P-wave, a QRS that was also not sensed due to the ventricular blanking period, and a short right ventricular myocardial effective refractory period.
(5) Every fixed-rate cycle contained two unsensed beats.
(6) In this form of VA synchrony, the atrial stimulus is ineffectual because it falls in the atrial myocardial refractory period generated by the preceding unsensed retrograde P wave.
(7) This occurs when a paced ventricular beat engenders an unsensed retrograde P wave and the continual delivery of an ineffectual atrial stimulus during the atrial myocardial refractory period creates self-perpetuating VA synchrony.
(8) For what it's worth, I don't personally think homosexuality (or any other subject) should be aggressively promoted in schools, but I do think it should be talked about in an informative, unsensational, way.
(9) Figures 1, 2 and 3 show examples of competitive rhythms without heart stimulation and unsensed beats by abnormally long programmed SW values.
(10) In addition, chest wall stimulation may be invaluable in the termination of reentry tachycardia which is unsensed by an implanted pulse generator either because the rate is too slow, or below the rate detection criterion, or because the intracardiac signal does not attain the sensitivity of the pulse generator.