سخيف in inglese:

Don't be silly!

Even the cleverest students can make silly mistakes.

Ikeda made several silly mistakes, and so he was told off by the department head.

The meeting was going off without a hitch until he threw a wet blanket on it by making silly remarks.

Bob thinks it is a silly idea to call his mother who is so far away, to spend so much, and to say so little.

It may never be known how we silly Anglophones got "baloney" out of "bologna."

His parents' view was that he was wasting his earnings on a silly girl.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

If my kid couldn't speak Shanghainese, I’d slap him silly. the man said.

This may be a silly question, but which is stronger - a tiger or a lion?

Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.

What a silly question! That was a silly thing to do, wasn’t it? Don’t be silly – it’s only a spider. She makes a fuss about such silly little (= unimportant) things.

It is a silly practice for non-Christians to send chocolates on St. Valentine's Day.

All that's left for me is to drink myself silly with vodka and to get lost in sleep.

Shame on you for getting so flustered. You looked ridiculous.

Ridiculous!

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

But that's ridiculous! Dima protested. "Kopeks haven't been around in ages! And 0.99 isn't even a natural number!"

It is rather ridiculous that, in some countries, a person cannot even release their own work into the public domain.

Dima... Al-Sayib said. "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

It is ridiculous as well as foolish to think man superior to woman, or woman to man.

How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!

Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

“when you realize how ridiculous these scenarios are, you will have to laugh”

It is an utterly ridiculous scheme, of which Parliament should be ashamed.

Hotels used to make a lot of money out of customers by charging a ridiculous amount for phone calls.

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.