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Definition of Sillier
1. silly [adj] - See also: silly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillier
Literary usage of Sillier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Coin Collector's Manual: Comprising an Historical and Critical Account by Henry Noel Humphreys (1897)
"... (OR REGAL COINS) OF EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, a ©oft, sillier, auB Capper,
STATING THEIR COMPARATIVE DEGREES OF ... sillier ..."
2. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"An officer having sillier- vision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to
ecclesiastical, but to civil and military, officers. ..."
3. Views of Religion by Rufus King Noyes (1906)
"The sillier satán is made the safer for everybody. CHARLES LAMB (1825). I do not
know that I shall ever venture myself again into one of your churches. ..."
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