Thesaurus / fribble
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synonyms for fribble
- levity
- flightiness
- flippancy
- flirting
- flummery
- folly
- frippery
- frivolousness
- fun
- gaiety
- game
- giddiness
- jest
- lightheartedness
- lightness
- nonsense
- play
- puerility
- shallowness
- sport
- superficiality
- toying
- trifling
- triviality
- volatility
- whimsicality
- whimsy
- coquetting
- dallying
- coquet
- dabble
- dally
- dawdle
- dilly-dally
- doodle
- fidget
- flirt
- fool
- fritter
- idle
- loiter
- lollygag
- lounge
- misuse
- monkey
- palter
- philander
- play
- potter
- putter
- squander
- toy
- twiddle
- wanton
- waste
- amuse oneself
- be insincere
- fool around
- fool with
- futz around
- horse around
- indulge in
- lead on
- mess with
- monkey with
- play games with
- play with
- string along
- use up
- waste time
- wink at
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How to use fribble in a sentence
Somehow, she found it difficult to imagine a friendship between Godfrey and this little fribble of a woman.
WHAT TIMMY DIDMARIE ADELAIDE BELLOC LOWNDESNor can such a person be a mere fribble; nor can any loose hanger-on of fashion imagine he may assume the character.
THE FITZ-BOODLE PAPERSWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAnd so he became a priest, a fribble, and a coxcomb, but a man of truth.
THE BROWNING CYCLOPDIAEDWARD BERDOEBut I might say that she is in fulness a woman—not a fribble, or one of those pick-me-up-and-carry-me women.
WAR AND THE WEIRDFORBES PHILLIPSHe ought to have been taken about the country in order to show the world the true meaning of a fribble and a beau.
THE LADY OF LYNNWALTER BESANTBut even the logical fribble, even the logical jargonist, was bound to be exact.
THE FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF ALLEGORYGEORGE SAINTSBURYHe had too much intellect to be a mere fribble, and had not the strong animal passions of the thorough debauchee.
ALEXANDER POPELESLIE STEPHENOne of them, it appeared, was a man who had run away from his wife; the other, an idle fribble who might be anything.
THE GAY ADVENTURERICHARD BIRDThe days are gone when a girl would so much as look at such a fribble as Sir Plume.
PHANTOM FORTUNE, A NOVELM. E. BRADDONAt any rate my love for her died, slain by the ice in her heart; and the foolish fribble I was passed into a man of resolution.
JOHN MARVEL, ASSISTANTTHOMAS NELSON PAGEWORDS RELATED TO FRIBBLE
- coquettings
- dallyings
- flightiness
- flippancies
- flirtings
- flummeries
- follies
- fribbles
- fripperies
- frivolousnesses
- fun
- gaiety
- games
- giddiness
- jests
- levities
- lightheartedness
- lightnesses
- nonsense
- plays
- puerilities
- shallowness
- sports
- superficialities
- toyings
- triflings
- trivialities
- volatilities
- whimsicalities
- whimsies
- amuse oneself
- be insincere
- coquet
- dabble
- dally
- dawdle
- dilly-dally
- doodle
- fidget
- flirt
- fool
- fool around
- fool with
- fribble
- fritter
- futz around
- horse around
- idle
- indulge in
- lead on
- loiter
- lollygag
- lounge
- mess with
- misuse
- monkey
- monkey with
- palter
- philander
- play
- play games with
- play with
- potter
- putter
- squander
- string along
- toy
- twiddle
- use up
- wanton
- waste
- waste time
- wink at
- amused oneself
- coqueted
- dabbled
- dallied
- dawdled
- dilly-dallied
- doodled
- fidgeted
- flirted
- fool around
- fool with
- fooled
- fribbled
- frittered
- futz around
- horse around
- idled
- indulged in
- led on
- loitered
- lollygaged
- lounged
- mess with
- misused
- monkey with
- monkeyed
- paltered
- philandered
- played
- played games with
- played with
- pottered
- puttered
- squandered
- string along
- toyed
- twiddled
- used up
- wantoned
- was insincere
- waste time
- wasted
- wink at
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.