Polish English Dictionary

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durny in English:

1. foolish


To try to bring it back would be foolish.
A foolish impulse made me say what I should have left unsaid.
A foolish misunderstanding severed their long friendship.
How foolish!
It is foolish of you to build a castle in the air while forgetting to drive in pilings for its foundation.
Life is as a box of matches. Treating it cautiously is foolish, not treating it cautiously is dangerous.
Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted.
It is ridiculous as well as foolish to think man superior to woman, or woman to man.
Claiming that money is not a requirement for happiness is foolish.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.
Would it be dangerous for a company to be run by a foolish CEO?
There was a feeling of constraint in the room; no one dared to tell the king how foolish his decision was.
Meanwhile, the foolish uncle was sitting in the living room.
The victim of blackmail has been paying hush money for years, but now he realizes it is foolish, and he has decided not to pay a red cent more.

English word "durny"(foolish) occurs in sets:

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2. dorky


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