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frivolous
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  • It showed Atticus barefooted and in short pants, chained to a desk: he was diligently writing on a slate while some frivolous-looking girls yelled, "Yoo-hoo!" at him.  (source)
    frivolous = unserious
  • The home theater had been his idea, something he had always wanted. But now it embarrasses him. ...his kids' $160 high-tops, the chenille bedspreads in his room, the energy with which he and Nahil have pursued these things. The fruits of his ambitions strike him as frivolous now. They remind him only of the brutal disparity between his life and what he'd found in Kabul.  (source)
    frivolous = not serious in content (unimportant)
  • As I said before, I was a frivolous girl—perhaps even a little stupid!  (source)
    frivolous = lacking in appropriate seriousness
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  • His gifts were never frivolous or the result of Saturday morning cartoon advertising, but thoughtful and delightful.  (source)
    frivolous = not serious
  • A girl's girl, all the way, all pink and fluff and frivolity.  (source)
    frivolity = lack of seriousness
  • Television, music, sports, and cinema were banned, judged by the Taliban leaders to be frivolities.†  (source)
  • I know that you have always flashed around a lot of money and spent it frivolously.  (source)
    frivolously = in a carefree (not serious) manner
  • Instead, I was having all the fun and frivolousness I was due in one summer, night by night.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • she spent no time in indulging the frivolous.  (source)
    frivolous = things not serious or important
  • [ROS marches up behind her, puts his hands over her eyes and says with a desperate frivolity.] ROS: Guess who?!  (source)
    frivolity = lightheartedness (lack of seriousness)
  • Even on an image, Eve could see this was a man who hunted down what or who he wanted, bagged it, used it, and didn't bother with frivolities such as trophies.†  (source)
  • We kept asking him to leave a big supply with us, but he'd shake his head gloomily, like we were bound to use them up frivolously or else cause an explosion.†  (source)
  • You must tolerate my frivolousness.†  (source)
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