frivolousness
IPA: frˈɪvʌɫʌsnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The quality of being frivolous.
- (countable) The result of being frivolous.
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Examples of "frivolousness" in Sentences
- Such a notion borders frivolousness.
- We step into the realm of frivolousness.
- This discussion smacks of pedantic frivolousness.
- Bringing this bit of frivolousness to the program will be no harm.
- Ridiculing the frivolousness of the press amused him almost as much as the behavior itself frustrated him.
- The freeform page layouts found in shojo might have added an element of frivolousness to this quiet and personal story.
- Iowans are a practical people and maybe invented ones; his lack of frivolousness and petty knife-grinding will be with them on caucus day.
- Her glances will tire out the other women, she will see in them, like in a mirror, her own indecency, her very frivolousness will turn her away from any unhealthy competition with men.
- (“Attempting to highlight the ‘frivolousness’ nature of our femininity, or portraying trans women as having derogatory feminine-associated character traits such as being weak, confused, passive, or mousy”).
- His chimeric fancy carries him here into a kind of frivolousness, as if he felt almost too safe with his public, and were himself not quite serious, or dealing fairly with it; and in a writer such as Browne levity must of necessity be a little ponderous.
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