Foolisher

Contemptuously he thought that Hutchings was "foolisher" than he had imagined -- or was he sincere? ❋ Frank Harris (1893)

If he had not known that, he would have been foolisher than a mouse or a minnow. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But even they are no foolisher than some hundred score of papas and mammas, who fetch the rod when they ought to fetch a new toy, and send to the dark cupboard instead of to the doctor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Epicureans, who held this wisdom to constitute the chief good; nor foolisher than that of their opposites, those modern epicures, who place all felicity in the abundant gratification of every sensual appetite. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The music is pretty good, and the tricks are not foolisher than usual, and some have said that they have more meaning than most that have preceded them. ❋ R. J. Broadbent (N/A)

"Goodness, you must think I'm foolisher than I am." ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

I suppose, my dear friend, that, when you were younger and foolisher than you now are, you were wont, after the reading of some dismal work upon diet and health, to take long, constitutional walks. ❋ Various (N/A)

"But even they were no foolisher than some hundred scores of papas and mamas; who fetch the rod when they ought to fetch a new toy, and send to the dark cupboard instead of to a doctor." ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

I'm still the same Eddie -- richer, balder, foolisher, perhaps. ❋ Ben Hecht (1929)

Bow Bells are just now ringing, ding dong, but whether for this, I cannot presently tell; but it is likely enough, for I have known them ring upon much foolisher occasions, and lately too. ❋ Various (1913)

"And if it's true, then Spider's foolisher and wickeder than I thought him." ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)

He should acquaint him with the true state of the world, and dispose him to think no man better or worse, wiser or foolisher, than he really is. ❋ Unknown (1909)

I'll bet it looked a heap foolisher than it sounds; but I'd just thought of something a feller told me once. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

I grins at that, and Jarvis dear looks foolisher than ever. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

And the foolisher we look at the start the deeper we're apt to be divin 'after the plot of the piece. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

I have been neither much wiser nor much foolisher than all the shes in the world, only much happier -- the difference is in the happiness. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Therefore, to say the truth, a foolisher man than thou art did I never hear. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Regular as clockwork it happened; quiet and easy as a door on a greased hinge; and every time it made the three look foolisher and foolisher. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)