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  • adjective superlative form of silly: most silly.

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Examples

  • Days before the repeal effort was announced, he came up with yet another way to apply the word silliest to the ban, saying: I think that was one of the silliest, silliest decisions anyone made, to outlaw foie gras.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • Days before the repeal effort was announced, he came up with yet another way to apply the word silliest to the ban, saying: I think that was one of the silliest, silliest decisions anyone made, to outlaw foie gras.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • It is an artistic treasure; but it glorifies a murder which Goethe described as the silliest crime ever committed.

    The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • John Chapman, Bishop of Ottawa for coining the silliest phrase of the year: experiential discernment: trying to decide whether doing something is right by – doing it.

    2009 December « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • John Chapman, Bishop of Ottawa for coining the silliest phrase of the year: experiential discernment: trying to decide whether doing something is right by – doing it.

    The 2009 awards for Canadian Anglican Dowfart of the Year « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men.

    G.K. Speaks - The Fallacy of Success 2007

  • There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men.

    All Things Considered 1905

  • Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes.

    China Hearsay Stan 2010

  • Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes.

    CEI Christopher C. Horner 2010

  • Consider the opening mewl: "Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes."

    Planet Gore on National Review Online Chris Horner 2010

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