She and Tommy were, of course, 'rotters'; they both talked much too much, and usually the most awful rubbish, and their absurd stammer made it sound sillier still, and you never knew when they meant a thing and when they didn't; and they neither knew nor cared anything about games or sport.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Everything was there, ready in him, to be turned one way or the other, and after he left Cambridge there was his silly mother and a sillier London waiting to finish him-now he's nothing but Vanity and Fascination-and soon there'll be nothing but Vanity."
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
"You won't look any sillier than you will as a red Indian," urged Helen.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith