(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.
Unsophisticated
Definition:
(a.) Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite advances in resuscitation, the ability to predict survival at cardiac arrests remains unsophisticated.
(2) Survival data was more difficult to obtain due to cultural biases in a medically unsophisticated patient population.
(3) The majority of adolescents contacted had an unsophisticated but approximate understanding of HIV transmission dynamics and how to guard against infection.
(4) This makes the program easy to use and adaptable even to unsophisticated microcomputers.
(5) Aside from the unsophisticated health practices stemming from a knowledge of Puerto Rican folk medicine, the cultural phenomena of spiritualism plays a significant role in retarding the health status of the Puerto Rican.
(6) Different groups of sophisticated and unsophisticated judges made ratings at either 15 sec, 30 sec, or 60 sec intervals while listening to the samples.
(7) The unsophisticated will imagine this works crudely, with Cameron pulling out his notepad and taking dictation from Uncle Rupe.
(8) The unexpected occurrence of Lie scale elevations among paranoid patients not considered to be unsophisticated or naive prompted previous researchers to speculate that the measure might have other interpretive utility.
(9) Despite Obama's confidence, some experts are expressing serious doubts about whether the IRGC would be involved in such an uncharacteristically unsophisticated operation with a trail leading right to their doorstep.
(10) The shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said on Tuesday current superannuation tax concessions were “not equitable and not sustainable”, and he made an overture to the new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull , saying he could have the capacity to rise above the unsophisticated scare campaigns of the past.
(11) The results show that relatively unsophisticated raters in comparison with trained and experienced raters are able to utilize the drug severity form with a minimum of error.
(12) The relatively low prevalence of RA in this population is consistent with the results of other surveys in unsophisticated African Negro populations in West Africa and South Africa, and contrasts with the higher prevalence encountered in an urbanized South African Negro community and in populations in Europe and the USA.
(13) According to researchers, the "unsophisticated" spy program was designed specifically to search and steal Hangul word processor (HWP) documents, which are used widely by South Korean officials.
(14) Unsophisticated lower-class clients are likely to receive scantier, less accurate information and less courteous treatment than educated middle-class clients.
(15) In children as well as in adults, capillaroscopy is an unsophisticated and non invasive technique which allows to investigate vascular acrosyndromes and systemic diseases.
(16) Psychophysical testing of the warning agents has been rather unsophisticated.
(17) We describe herein an unsophisticated method which reveals that at least certain simple repetitive (gt)n(ga)m sequences bind nuclear proteins and show characteristics of a specific DNA-protein interaction via gel retardation.
(18) The study shows that in developing countries, unsophisticated research, using basic facilities, can be of value in identifying the problems of infection and in recognizing possible solutions to them.
(19) Such international ostracism had a powerful effect on the ruling government, but elsewhere some campaigners began to voice concern that organisations were being unsophisticated in their activism, opting for a knee-jerk boycott in every instance and risking the public's goodwill.
(20) These relatively unsophisticated methods produced satisfactory results.