"foolish" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

foolish adjetivo

foolish + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 70
foolish thing • foolish man • foolish question • foolish woman • foolish girl • ...
verbo + foolish
Kolokacji: 6
feel foolish • look foolish • sound foolish • act foolish • appear foolish • ...
adverbio + foolish
Kolokacji: 12
most foolish • extremely foolish • slightly foolish • pretty foolish • somewhat foolish • ...
1. most foolish = najbardziej niemądry most foolish
2. extremely foolish = niezwykle niemądry extremely foolish
3. utterly foolish = całkowicie niemądry utterly foolish
4. equally foolish = tak samo niemądry equally foolish
5. incredibly foolish = niewiarygodnie niemądry incredibly foolish
6. damned foolish = potępieńcy niemądry damned foolish
7. remarkably foolish = niezwykle niemądry remarkably foolish
8. politically foolish = politycznie niemądry politically foolish
  • In an era of strained budgets and competing priorities, it is politically foolish for the unions to alienate parents and essentially encourage families to leave public schools.
  • But Republican officials said it would be politically foolish for the party to dispatch aides to lurk around for nasty rumors about Mr. Clinton and Mr. Perot.
  • Both Liberals and Social Democrats condemned the Steel-Maclennan proposal to raise taxes on food and children's clothing and phase out the tax exemption for home mortgages as politically foolish.
  • The president's advisers point out the obvious: it is politically foolish to waste time in New York.
  • Lumumba's attack was historically accurate but politically foolish.
  • Whether technically illegal or not, it was politically foolish and counterproductive to mislead Congress, even if misleading took the form of artful evasion or silence instead of overt misstatement.
  • This policy seems both wrong in principle and politically foolish.
  • "It would be politically foolish and substantively indefensible for the Governor to veto any piece of this spending."
  • Even if the IRS had determined policy, beyond its authority in deciding, opposing this case would be politically foolish.
  • But others, like Eddie Mahe, a prominent Republican consultant, consider those arguments politically foolish.
9. downright foolish = wręcz niemądry downright foolish
(2) slightly, pretty, somewhat
Kolokacji: 3
foolish + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
foolish of • foolish for • foolish in • foolish to • foolish about

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