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

The more stylized approaches of traditional “Streetcar” revivals aren’t just frippery.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

This is a crock, dressed up in legal frippery.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

She refuses to treat them as frippery or dainty delicacies: “They can be the main ingredient.”

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

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