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Word: sillier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...firm and in control--though, Wayans says, "a bit of a Neanderthal." Creatively, My Wife is one of TV's most nondescript sitcoms, from its familiar suburban-family premise to its plain-as-macaroni title, but its very blandness makes TV's skittishness about black comedy seem all the sillier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Color Crosses Over | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hefner Effect and Serious Journalism | 8/30/2001 | See Source »

...have also veered into the kiddie department. P-Diddy (née Sean Combs) was arrested in Miami Beach for making an illegal lane change on a scooter and charged with driving on a suspended license. Driving a scooter on a suspended license? I suppose it could have been sillier. He could’ve run someone over while using one of those Razor scooter things...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Mix | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...think he wasn't flamboyant enough," Rose says. "It was meant to be much sillier than Harvey could have been. It needed someone who was willing to be gross...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Life At Harvard Left Its Mark on Fineberg | 10/24/2000 | See Source »

...bother carping about script lapses involving the crew (or an even sillier subplot of an upper-class twit on a yacht)? Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Familiar Crew Adrift in Turbulent Waters | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

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