Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
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...
(n.) The quality or state of being silly.
I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity.
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.
You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story.Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love. I'llbet you a hundred to one a woman wrote that junky romantic trash!J...
She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - alwa...
And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end....
Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.