All 5 Uses of
frivolous
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Marseilles is filled with half-pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.†
Chpt 5-6
- Certainly, in the eyes of an artist, the exact and strict costume of Teresa had a very different character from that of Carmela and her companions; and Teresa was frivolous and coquettish, and thus the embroidery and muslins, the cashmere waist-girdles, all dazzled her, and the reflection of sapphires and diamonds almost turned her giddy brain.†
Chpt 33-34
- The stranger thus presenting himself was probably a person who, like Franz, preferred the enjoyment of solitude and his own thoughts to the frivolous gabble of the guides.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- No, my life has been passed in frivolity; I wish to forget it myself.†
Chpt 67-68
- You no more deceive me with that false calmness than I impose upon you with my frivolous solicitude.†
Chpt 105-106
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