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:

The USAT lead puts the dubiousness of one-day economic analysis and the folly of giving much newspaper space to it on full display.
Despite lawyers' renunciations of such efforts as “chimeras of ignorance and folly,’ the public continued--and continues to this day--to yearn for simplicity.
Whatever folly of grandeur the financier entertained is best seen in the opulently paneled Oak Room and the stained-glass dome, marble floors, and Italianate bronze doors of the Conservatory.
Idealists preach responsibility and courage, which realists dismiss as hubris and folly.
(This is another reason that the notion of solving the Social Security problem by investing payments in the stock market is such folly.