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  • noun Plural form of silly.

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Examples

  • It is an interesting observation on the ways of the media that, given one of the "sillies" like the bent cucumber regulations, they all pile in but, when the EU fouls up big time, they are silent.

    Notice anything missing? Richard 2007

  • It is an interesting observation on the ways of the media that, given one of the "sillies" like the bent cucumber regulations, they all pile in but, when the EU fouls up big time, they are silent.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007

  • Every society has it's share of fools who don't have sense enough to do what is best for themselves, and as part of it's responsibility to all its citizens, societies often impose rules and regulations to save the "sillies" from themselves.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories LogicRules 2010

  • Every society has it's share of fools who don't have sense enough to do what is best for themselves, and as part of it's responsibility to all its citizens, societies often impose rules and regulations to save the "sillies" from themselves.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories LogicRules 2010

  • True to form, the "sillies" always bit#h, moan and complain!

    Propeller Most Popular Stories LogicRules 2010

  • True to form, the "sillies" always bit#h, moan and complain!

    Propeller Most Popular Stories LogicRules 2010

  • The event was discussion style, and as Badar and Rabia the two hosts prodded and poked the audience into speaking, more and more voices came out to talk about twitter, micro blogging, its good and bad points, how it affects privacy coupled with a few sillies like stalking and terrorists using twitter thrown in.

    Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Karachi Tweet Up 2009 2009

  • The reading of good poetry also helps that part of the mind that uses language to limber up, relax a bitit's akin to shaking your sillies out, in the terms of that children's song.

    An Interview with Gregory Maguire 2010

  • When Tony got the sillies, I've always thought, well, it'll be fine — until this year.

    NCIS Exclusive: When Tony Met Jethro 2011

  • I see you are like Dick — ­always with a string on your compliments, and lo, when we poor sillies start to nibble, back goes the compliment dragging at the end of the string.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

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