The book is a silly, artificial piece of work.

After a particularly silly piece of gossip, his mother leant forward.

As a boy he had often disobeyed an order to follow some silly piece of whimsy.

The use of microtones did not turn this silly piece into something innovative.

I understand some silly piece of math is more important.

For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

Worth a lot more than silly pieces of paper.

No one had told them they were going to go to war over a silly piece of land.

I wouldn't say that this article is a silly piece altogether.

But it would be a silly piece of manipulation.