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Meaning of sillyly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B1

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of sillily.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“[…]: and that the soule it selfe is but sillyly looked to, while the bodie is in price, and to much borne with, as is generally seene:[…]”
“Reader be pleaſed to view over theſe two Accounts (touching the Controverſy between Tho. Hicks and John Story) that It may be underſtood how Sillyly Tho. Hicks came off about his falſe Charge againſt the Quakers,[…]”
“So some that passe for Deepe Astrologers / Have made great Princes Presents of New-stars, / As Virtuosos sillyly have don / And giv’n away whole Ilands in the Moon:[…]”
“[…]: Withal very ſillyly finding fault with the Style of our Sermons, which even every wiſe Man among the Diſſenters themſelves do approve of:[…]”
“the report you know my love is very is false therefore that particular dont make me uneaſy as it will be proved to the contrary by seeing we live together, it was some spiteful person raised it maliciously and very sillyly indeed”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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