Words similar to folly

Example sentences for: folly

How can you use “folly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I've surely paid my price for youthful folly."
Not so with Webster , for, owing to a bit of folly in the 1930s, G. & C. Merriam Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, successors to the line of dictionaries originated by Noah Webster, published a synonym dictionary and called it a Webster . World Publishing Company, of Cleveland, had the wit to see that Merriam had, in effect, forsworn its birthright, for Noah had never published a synonym dictionary.
The grandson of two confederate soldiers, McMillan was on record deriding "the folly ...
Society should recognize that funding university research through patents is folly, and should fund it directly, as in the past.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. (Youthful Folly), meanwhile, has been busy running Seagram--the Bronfman-managed liquor conglomerate--into the ground.