Foolishly

adv. [f. as prec. + -LY².] In a foolish manner.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, ix. 243. ‘Alas,’ sayd Reynawde, ‘ye speke folysly.’

1561.  Winȝet, Exhortation Marie Q. Scottis, Wks. 1888, I. 21. Quha fuleschlie assentit to thair prydefull arrogance.

1609.  Skene, Reg. Maj., 83. Gif ane Burges wife … answeres fulishlie in Court.

1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 98, 22 June, ¶ 5. When we load it with such a Pile of supernumerary Ornaments, we destroy the Symmetry of the humane Figure, and foolishly contrive to call off the Eye from great and real Beauties, to childish Gew-gaws, Ribbands, and Bone-lace.

1795.  Burke, Corr. (1844), IV. 327. The Catholics have foolishly, in all senses, disarmed themselves.

1874.  Morley, Compromise (1886), 148–9. When we come to declaring opinions that are, however foolishly and unreasonably, associated with pain and even a kind of turpitude in the minds of those who strongly object to them, then some of our most powerful sympathies are naturally engaged.