| Shorthand may serve useful purposes, but when combined with short attention spans, it's foolishness bordering on fraud. |
| People enjoyed laughing at the foolishness of spoiled young men being outwitted by card sharps. |
| His skald, Thorkell, wrote a telling lamentation for his dead master, which given the foolishness of his actions does not seem truly deserved. |
| The inevitable thoughts of his foolishness returned to him, no matter how optimistic he tried to be. |
| He would keep her from putting it into just such foolishnesses as this fireplace. |
| With the same detached honesty he famously records the great events, the invaluable ongoing political story, as well as his own foolishnesses and lustful fumblings. |
