Both Uses of
frivolous
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Mr Nickleby glanced at these frivolities with great contempt, and gave a double knock, which, having been thrice repeated, was answered by a servant girl with an uncommonly dirty face.†
Chpt 3 *
- The hungry servant attended Miss Squeers in her own room according to custom, to curl her hair, perform the other little offices of her toilet, and administer as much flattery as she could get up, for the purpose; for Miss Squeers was quite lazy enough (and sufficiently vain and frivolous withal) to have been a fine lady; and it was only the arbitrary distinctions of rank and station which prevented her from being one.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
-
(frivolous) not serious
- in behavior or attitude -- as when acting silly or without appropriate seriousness
- in content -- as when describing something as trivial or unimportant