Crossword-Solution: SILLINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Silliness | n. | The quality or state of being silly. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “SILLINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Typical Three Stooges comedy | 1 answer |
| Endearing quality of puns | 1 answer |
| Ridiculous acts | 2 answers |
| dottiness | 6 answers |
| unintelligence | 8 answers |
| Unfairness | 8 answers |
| unwisdom | 9 answers |
| play upon words | 9 answers |
| silly season | 15 answers |
| Unreason | 16 answers |
| Buffoonery | 17 answers |
| fatuity | 18 answers |
| Levity | 19 answers |
| ungainliness | 20 answers |
| clumsiness | 20 answers |
| gaucheness | 20 answers |
| ineptness | 20 answers |
| lack of ability | 21 answers |
| Tactlessness | 21 answers |
| lack of skill | 22 answers |
| AWKWARDNESS | 23 answers |
| flippancy | 24 answers |
| ineffectiveness | 25 answers |
| ineptitude | 25 answers |
| gaucherie | 30 answers |
| incompetence | 38 answers |
| worthless matter | 41 answers |
| IDLE words | 42 answers |
| waste matter | 43 answers |
| unsteadiness | 45 answers |
| boloney | 45 answers |
| Bosh | 47 answers |
| psychosis | 47 answers |
| oafishness | 47 answers |
| Recklessness | 48 answers |
| inanity | 61 answers |
| Rubbish | 64 answers |
| Balderdash | 74 answers |
| Oddity | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SILLINESS (5)
This silliness dates back at least as far as 1959 at Stanford University and had already gone international by the early 1960s, when it was reported at London University's ATLAS computing site.
There is a battle and they gain the day, and then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously thrust into exile by them, and temperance, which they nickname unmanliness, is trampled in the mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly expenditure are vulgarity and meanness, and so, by the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them beyond the border.
For some time he had the inhumanity to read me a lecture as to the incredible silliness, ‘not to say immorality,’ of my behaviour.
The hymn must therefore be later than that date, though Terpander, according to Weir Smyth 1116, may have only modified the scale of the lyre; yet while the burlesque character precludes an early date, this feature is far removed, as Allen and Sikes remark, from the silliness of the _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, so that a date in the earlier part of the sixth century is most probable.
For, instead of the dreamy, romantic character his large brown eyes and sensitive features suggested, he revealed in talk and actions a boyish gayety--free, be it said, from boyish silliness--that was most infectious.
Quotes with SILLINESS (3)
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.
This is stupid.""Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. The pettiness, the silliness. You think in war it must be different. Must be better. With death around the corner, men united against hardship, the cunning of the enemy, people must think harder, faster, be... better. Be heroic. Only it's just the same. In fact do yo…
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2005–2019).