Words similar to folly

Example sentences for: folly

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Forcing miscreants to attend high school is pure folly, based on three untruths: 1) any kid can be taught; 2) dropping out will turn a kid toward crime; and 3) without a high-school education you can't get a decent job.
I'm the first to concede the awful, balkanizing folly of many left-liberals on race.
But this book is weirdly enjoyable for what is not in it: conventional film gossip, name-dropping, show-biz folly of any kind.
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.
You can view this monument to royal folly, but you can no longer board it.