All 4 Uses of
frivolous
in
The Mill on the Floss
- And now the women were gone, they could carry on their serious talk without frivolous interruption.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- Her frivolous mind required a more direct appeal to its sense of the terrible, and Tom prepared for his master-stroke.†
Chpt 2.5
- She did not think of such things with frivolous indifference, and Tom must not accuse her of that.†
Chpt 6.4
- The ladies who had commodities of their own to sell, and did not want dressing-gowns, saw at once the frivolity and bad taste of this masculine preference for goods which any tailor could furnish; and it is possible that the emphatic notice of various kinds which was drawn toward Miss Tulliver on this public occasion, threw a very strong and unmistakable light on her subsequent conduct in many minds then present.†
Chpt 6.9
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