All 3 Uses of
frivolous
in
Arrowsmith
- He walked all the way up to their inconsiderable hotel in the Thirties, and all the way the crowds stared at him—this slim, pale, black-eyed, beaming young man who thrust among them, halfrunning, seeing nothing yet in a blur seeing everything: gallant buildings, filthy streets, relentless traffic, soldiers of fortune, fools, pretty women, frivolous shops, windy sky.†
Chpt 26
- They talked gravely or frivolously of their work, the one sort of work that, since it becomes part of the chain of discovered fact, is eternal, however forgotten the worker's name.†
Chpt 26 *
- She lay on the coverlet of her berth, in the tropic languidness, a slight figure in a frivolous nightgown.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(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