Crossword-Solution: FOLLY 5 letters, 171 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Folly	n.	The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
Folly	n.	A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
Folly	n.	Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
Folly	n.	The result of a foolish action or enterprise.

We have 171 clues for the answer “FOLLY”

Clue	Answers
"'Tis ___ to be wise"	1 answer
A foolish act or idea	1 answer
AFFECT with	1 answer
Absurd idea	1 answer
Act of lunacy	1 answer
An ornamental building with no practical purpose	1 answer
BETISE	1 answer
Bad investment, maybe	1 answer
Costly undertaking	1 answer
FOOLISH idea	1 answer
Foolish move	1 answer
Imprudent activity	1 answer
Imprudent undertaking	1 answer
Jackassery	1 answer
Lack of good sense	1 answer
Misguided act	1 answer
Nonsensical act	1 answer
Nonsensical move	1 answer
Rash act	1 answer
Rash behavior	1 answer
Ridiculous idea	1 answer
Senseless endeavor	1 answer
Senseless undertaking	1 answer
Seward s ___	1 answer
Seward's Alaska purchase, it was said	1 answer
Seward's Alaska purchase, to some	1 answer
Seward's __: Alaska purchase	1 answer
Seward's purchase, it was said	1 answer
Supreme stupidity	1 answer
Thoughtless act.	1 answer
Unprofitable undertaking.	1 answer
Unwise behavior	1 answer
Unwise investment	1 answer
Unwise undertaking	1 answer
Want of good sense.	1 answer
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis --- to be wise	1 answer
Whimsical addition to an English garden	1 answer
Wrongheadedness	1 answer
foolish or senseless behavior	1 answer
puerility	1 answer
the quality of being rash and foolish	1 answer
the trait of acting stupidly or rashly	1 answer
foolish action	2 answers
Huge mistake	2 answers
ECCENTRIC structure built for individual amusement/caprice	2 answers
ELAGABALUS, fame of	2 answers
HELIOGABALUS, fame of	2 answers
foolish remark	3 answers
ANILITY	3 answers
Foolish act.	3 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

RAAE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with FOLLY (5)

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979

For should Man finally be lost, should Man Thy creature late so lov’d, thy youngest Son Fall circumvented thus by fraud, though joynd With his own folly? that be from thee farr, That farr be from thee, Father, who art Judge Of all things made, and judgest onely right.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALK We now see the element of folly distinctly mingling with the many varying particulars which made up the character of Bathsheba Everdene.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with FOLLY (3)

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Daphne du Maurier Rebecca

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

Edmund Burke

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Richard Adams Watership Down

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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 47 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).