All 11 Uses of
frivolous
in
Main Street
- They walked from St. Paul down the river to Mendota, Kennicott more elastic-seeming in a cap and a soft crepe shirt, Carol youthful in a tam-o'-shanter of mole velvet, a blue serge suit with an absurdly and agreeably broad turn-down linen collar, and frivolous ankles above athletic shoes.†
Chpt 2
- She laughed and was frivolous and rather brittle.†
Chpt 4
- You must tolerate my frivolousness.†
Chpt 4
- They think you're too frivolous.
Chpt 8 *frivolous = lacking in appropriate seriousness
- She wondered why the good citizens insisted on adding the chill of prejudice, why they did not make the houses of their spirits more warm and frivolous, like the wise chatterers of Stockholm and Moscow.†
Chpt 10
- She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees.†
Chpt 12
- Seriousness or frivolousness or both.†
Chpt 13
- She sat modestly in a stiff chair, feeling frivolous and out of place.†
Chpt 15
- Just as its cynicism was beginning to rouse her village-dulled frivolity, it was over.†
Chpt 17
- Bea's successor was the oldish, broad, silent Oscarina, who was suspicious of her frivolous mistress for a month, so that Juanita Haydock was able to crow, "There, smarty, I told you you'd run into the Domestic Problem!"†
Chpt 19
- The frivolous teacher had come to accept Carol as of her own youth, and though school had begun she rushed in daily to suggest dances, welsh-rabbit parties.†
Chpt 31
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