Englisch-Französisch Übersetzung für folly

folieNotre refus de l'y inscrire est la plus grande des folies. Our refusal to place it there is the greatest folly. C'est pure folie et, vous direz ce que vous voudrez, mais c'est tout bonnement inacceptable. This is folly and, say what you will, it is simply unacceptable. J'aurais préféré que nous renoncions entièrement à cette folie. I would have preferred the entire folly of that waste to have been overturned.
imprudence

sottise
Par cette action, son nom est devenu synonyme de sottise arrogante. In doing so, he became a byword for arrogant folly. Et Bruxelles découvre la sottise de sa politique d'étouffement de la production. Brussels finally realised the folly of its policy to stifle production.

This is a war of folly to continue.
Itd be folly.
The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Sewards folly.
A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.

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