Adjective

(en-adj)

Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.

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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish , but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

Resembling or characteristic of a fool.

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*(Aeschylus)

*:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Talking in a vain or foolish way

*{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Gustavus Myers, title=History of the great American fortunes, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The boards of trade and chambers of commerce were largely made up of men who, while assuming the most vaniloquent pretensions, were themselves malodorous with fraud. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1977, author=Willy Peremans, title=Historiographia antiqua, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous. }}