<noun.attribute> the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior
an impulsive scatterbrained manner
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Silliness \Sil"li*ness\, n. The quality or state of being silly.
Boulder city spokesman David Grimm said he was game to contribute some silliness.
The complaint is an example of the "hyper-technical silliness" that Cuomo is trying to change by simplifying state election law, said Gary Fryer, Cuomo's press secretary.
But to keep silliness alive, Canadian gallery Olga Korper is selling reproductions of the Mona Lisa's mouth.
And the banners furled for each riddle now are done by three men instead of the silliness of two men pulling them from a backpack worn by Turandot.
Top entertainers on Sunday launched Britain's second Comic Relief Day campaign and predicted that 7 million people will don red noses on March 10 in a day of national silliness to help raise millions for charity.
Its silliness, apparently the result of the reporter having been caught in a 30-year-old time warp, was best illustrated by the claim that Princeton men still stand when women enter the clubs' dining rooms.
But she and the others try out the "medicine" on themselves, and the ensuing silliness degenerates into an ugly family squabble.
"The food is so good, it doesn't need any `Crocodile Dundee' silliness," wrote the Houston Chronicle last month.
Aside from the silliness of reducing Iran-Contra to tax-code technicalities, it turns out that neither the Internal Revenue Service nor the Justice Department thinks a charity automatically loses its tax exemption if it raises money spent buying arms.
I will leave it to your readers, however, to decide where the alleged "silliness" lies.
There is much better Stockhausen than this autobiographical silliness.