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"text": "The man walked down the street so sillily that many a bystander stopped and stared slack-jawed."
},
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"ref": "1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253",
"text": "Even 'Che Isa [...] had behaved sillily, making up to married men.",
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"In a silly manner; foolishly."
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"(dated or hypercorrect) In a silly manner; foolishly."
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