frippery

Example Sentences

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Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

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

On the one hand: the stuff of fantasy and frippery; on the other, feeds and headlines filled with threat and fear.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 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