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folly

Folly is an act of foolishness or a lack of good sense. (noun)

  1. An example of folly is someone intentionally stabbing their foot with a pitch fork.
  2. An example of folly is building a hospital on an earthquake fault line.

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See folly in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See folly in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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