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adjective

Frivolous adj.

Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.

Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. "His personal tastes were low and frivolous."

Synonyms: Trifling; trivial; slight; petty; worthless.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frivolous" Quotes from Famous Books

... but become selfish, calculating, dead to the noblest impulses and sympathies which ought to actuate States. It will submit to insults that wound its honor, rather than endanger its commercial interests by war; while, to subserve those interests, it will wage unjust war, on false or frivolous pretexts, its free people cheerfully allying themselves with despots to crush a commercial rival that has ared to exile its kings and elect ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... on our huddled group there were tears in her eyes, but there was no shock. I noticed distinctly that there was no shock. "Why, girls," she exclaimed, with a certain terse brightness, "aren't you dressed yet? It's eight o'clock and people are beginning to arrive." She seemed so frivolous to me. I remember that I felt a little ...

— Different Girls • Various

... projected campaign with the least possible delay, Henry named the 5th of May as the day on which the ceremony was to be performed; but having learnt from a private despatch that the Archduke had resolved at the eleventh hour not to incur the hazard of a war with France upon so frivolous a pretext as the forcible retention of a Princess, who moreover, remained under his charge against her own free will, and that Madame de Conde was accordingly about to return to the French Court, ...

— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe

... can you be so frivolous? Are you aware that politics, in which you are now to play a part however ...

— Punch, July 18, 1917 • Various

... EPIC, AND DIDACTIC POETRY.—In the latter part of the eighteenth century, a class of poets who called themselves "The Arcadians" attempted to overthrow the artificial and bombastic school of Marini; but their frivolous and insipid productions had little effect on the literature. The first poets who gave a new impulse to letters were Parini and Monti. Parini (1729-1799) was a man of great genius, integrity, and taste; he contributed more than any other writer of his age to the progress of literature and the arts. ...

— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

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