Adjective

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(label) Pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:

A silly man, in simple weedes forworne, / And soild with dust of the long dried way; / His sandales were with toilesome trauell torne, / And face all tand with scorching sunny ray

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

After long storms with which my silly bark was tossed sore.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

The silly buckets on the deck.

(label) Simple, unsophisticated, ordinary; rustic, ignorant.

* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":

For, if we justly call each silly man'' / A ''little island , What shall we call thee than?

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

A fourth man, in a silly habit.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

Foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom; frivolous, trifling.

Irresponsible, showing irresponsible behaviors.

Semiconscious, witless.

(label) Of a fielding position, very close to the batsman; closer than short.

Simple, not intelligent, unrefined.

* {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke

(label) Happy; fortunate; blessed.

(Chaucer)

(label) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The silly virgin strove him to withstand.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

A silly , innocent hare murdered of a dog.

Adjective

(en adjective)

resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd

The actions of politicians in office are a farcical joke to most of their constituents.

*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation

, passage=A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable. }}