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:

Even his lone May triumph, the planned purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers for $350 million, has been dismissed as an expensive folly.
On the hilltop further up the same winding road, over 450 m (1,500 ft) above sea level, is the Palácio da Pena, an outrageous Victorian folly built in 1840.
But since as many as 30 percent to 40 percent of the graduates at schools like CUNY go into small or solo practices within a few years of graduating, the deans argue, it seems folly not to teach them how to stay afloat financially and take on low-income clients at the same time.
Monolongual Mexican vaqueros witnessing the folly of such misuse of their implement would shout at the Gringos in excellent Desert Latin (as Spanish has been called): “Dale, dale!”
Society should recognize that funding university research through patents is folly, and should fund it directly, as in the past.