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Folly Pronunciation

Pronounce Folly as F OW L L Y.

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    Folly phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'folly'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of folly: /foʊllj/
    • Modern IPA representation of folly: /fɒllʌ/

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    List of meaning for folly

    an action where wisdom is absent

    folly, foolishness, unwiseness(noun)

    the trait of acting stupidly or rashly

    stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility(noun)

    a stupid mistake

    folly, foolishness, craziness, madness(noun)

    the quality of being rash and foolish

    "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"

    folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence(noun)

    foolish or senseless behavior

    a foolish act or idea

    the American purchase of Alaska was originally considered a grand folly

    lack of good sense or judgment

    in all my folly, I didn't think about how my actions would hurt my father

    language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense

    enough of this folly about moving to the Australian outback

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    folly in sentence

    1. The folly that got Jim arrested was hanging out with the gang of robbers.

    2. Going shopping on Christmas Eve was my husband’s worst folly ever.

    3. Rather than admit her folly to her parents, Jenna lied about her report card.

    4. In the film, the elderly man’s folly was marrying a gold-digger who only wanted his money.

    5. It was obvious the city’s folly was not being properly prepared for the hurricane that nearly destroyed it.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term folly

    Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish.

    – Isaac D?Israeli

    It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.

    – Von Humboldt

    Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

    – John Lancaster Spalding

    Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

    – Julius Rosenwald

    The Kaliningrad contingent is being heavily upgraded qualitatively, not quantitatively, our general staff understands the folly of a large deployment here.

    – Vladimir Abramov

    To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.

    – Theodore Roszak

    Through these photographs, I will try to sensitize people and make them aware that they are often part of the problem, this project aims to show human arrogance and folly and to build in us humility.

    – Adam Lach

    The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

    – Queen Victoria

    It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

    – Joseph Addison

    He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

    – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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