frippery
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025
Yet in the end, amid all the fun and frippery, the one garment that most lingered was perhaps the least elaborate, least formal of all: the T-shirt worn by Billie Eilish for her performance.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
She was not a hostage to the glamour and the grandeur and the frippery.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
One important function of the Academy Awards, often lost amid the frippery and frivolity, is to help the nominated movies find those audiences and those moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
He reiterated his insistence that in Chicago “simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“Goon Squad” employed a number of narrative fripperies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
It's been a long time since I've addressed friends and dinner parties and crystal fripperies in some other context than their abrupt cancellation.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2021
It is not at all good, but the crucial distinction to make is that its aggressive un-goodness strikes a different timbre than the comparable un-goodness of Franco’s highfalutin literary adaptations or experimental fripperies.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2018
Lavinia’s room; and strewed about it things he had never seen before—stays, kerchiefs, patchboxes, ribbons, fripperies.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing frippery
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Looking to grow your vocabulary? Check out this interactive, curated word list from our team of English language specialists at Vocabulary.com – one of over 17,000 lists we've built to help learners worldwide!
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter
Interested in learning more words like this one? Our team at Vocabulary.com has got you covered! You can review flashcards, quiz yourself, practice spelling, and more – and it's all completely free to use!
The Devil in the White City
Want to remember this word for good? Start your learning journey today with our library of interactive, themed word lists built by the experts at Vocabulary.com – we'll help you make the most of your study time!
