FRIVOLITY in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for FRIVOLITY, such as:

1. They think you're too frivolous.
2. I think he sees her as a frivolous young woman.
3. She laughed and was frivolous and rather brittle.
4. His frivolity annoys the other people in the office.
5. She has a frivolous nature and won't take anything seriously.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRIVOLITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frivolity
 n.  not serious or sensible; acting like a clown; something of little value or significance
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  For frivolity and jokes and spotted tights were an offense, when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was exalted into the vague august realm of the romantic.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  The mother looked young, and the daughter looked old; the mother's complexion was pink, and the daughter's was yellow; the mother set up for frivolity, and the daughter for theology.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
3  Just as its cynicism was beginning to rouse her village-dulled frivolity, it was over.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  He did not like to combine frivolity with the serious business of hunting.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
5  She laughed and was frivolous and rather brittle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  They think you're too frivolous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  She wondered why the good citizens insisted on adding the chill of prejudice, why they did not make the houses of their spirits more warm and frivolous, like the wise chatterers of Stockholm and Moscow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  She sat modestly in a stiff chair, feeling frivolous and out of place.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  The frivolous teacher had come to accept Carol as of her own youth, and though school had begun she rushed in daily to suggest dances, welsh-rabbit parties.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Aunt woke up and, being more good-natured after her nap, told me to read a bit and show what frivolous work I preferred to the worthy and instructive Belsham.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
12  But they were kindly people, in spite of the frivolous life they led, and soon put their guest at her ease.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
13  You have grown abominably lazy, you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
14  She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47
15  They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  I don't think such frivolity helps the organization's public image.
2  There is a serious message at the core of all this frivolity.
3  His frivolity annoys the other people in the office.
4  While the first impression of a traditional clown may be one of frivolity, the exaggerated makeup, clothing, expressions.
5  I think he sees her as a frivolous young woman.
6  She has a frivolous nature and won't take anything seriously.
7  Berg's frivolous lawsuit was tossed out for lack of standing shortly before the election by a federal district court.