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Frivolously   /frˈɪvələsli/   Listen
Frivolously

adverb
1.
In a frivolous manner.






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"Frivolously" Quotes from Famous Books



... no wish to treat drunkenness frivolously in beginning this sketch; I have seen women in the horrors—that ought to ...
— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson

... generally frivolously employed appears also from an epistle to Balzac, by Boisrobert, the amusing companion of Cardinal Richelieu. "Every one separately," says he, "promises great things; when they meet they do nothing. They have been six years ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... pessimism of an aristocratic spirit, moulded into a form proper to the little world of the salon—each maxim a drop of the attar not of roses but of some more poignant and bitterly aromatic blossom. In the circle of Mme. de Sable, now an elderly precieuse, a circle half-Epicurean, half-Jansenist, frivolously serious and morosely gay, the composition of maxims and "sentences" became a fashion. Those of La Rochefoucauld were submitted to her as to an oracle; five years were given to shaping a tiny volume; fifteen years to rehandling and polishing every phrase. They are ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... a pretty specimen of her kind," says Hardinge, a little frivolously under the circumstances it must be confessed. ...
— A Little Rebel • Mrs. Hungerford

... which are not called vulgar only because the better classes use them, come trippingly, but never with a pleasant effect from her lips. Nor has she that sense of reticence which is said to have been the distinguishing mark of unmarried girlhood at some former period. That she should talk frivolously on great subjects, if she talks on them at all, is only to be expected. It would be well if her curiosity and her conversation left untouched delicate matters, the existence of which she may suspect ...
— Punch, Vol. 99., July 26, 1890. • Various

... usually served by an elderly housewoman, gazed at this innovation in frank astonishment; but it was only the first of her surprises. The table was frivolously alight with pink candles, and in the center stood a decoration consisting of a scalloped watermelon filled with flowers, leashed to a little fleet of flower-filled canteloupes, by ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly

... Miss Kilrain looked steadily at two members sitting side by side. Both had voted for the Debate, and both had been seen by Miss Kilrain, one, at least, laughing frivolously, in company with—a boy. The two members, moving uneasily beneath Miss Kilrain's gaze, were Hattie and ...
— Emmy Lou - Her Book and Heart • George Madden Martin

... have been a Roosian, or French or Dutch or Proosian,'" he quoted frivolously. "Well, Phyllis, I'm glad you approve of my—ah—choice. How long do you think it will take it to get its ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer



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