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Definition
not serious
- in behavior or attitude — as when acting silly or without appropriate seriousness
- in content — as when describing something as trivial or unimportant
- The only frivolity was in his purple knitted scarf.Chapter 1 (66% in)
- Noel Ryland, sales-manager of the Zeeco, was a frivolous graduate of Princeton, while Babbitt was a sound and standard ware from that great department-store, the State University.Chapter 6 (8% in)
There are no more uses of "frivolous" in Babbitt.
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