Of course she laughed and told him not to make silly remarks.
It had been a silly remark; she didn't need his slow smile to let her know that.
His tone implied that she had made a silly remark.
"I'm still here," she began, and thought what a silly remark that was.
No, it's not that silly remark about him having invented it.
It was a silly remark but I suppose nurses get that way.
"So she might as well take her silly remarks and do something else with them."
The thing to do with a silly remark is to fail to hear it.
A silly remark that he didn't think was worth answering.