frivol
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There were few awards in fields of frivol: Oscars, Tonys, Grammys didn't exist.
From Time Magazine Archive
For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love.
From Time Magazine Archive
He only signaled to another guard—this one taller and older—who said, “Step aside, please, or we’ll have to arrest you. This is not a place to frivol with.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Dreamily I watched a great red dragon-fly frivol with the fairy blue wreaths of incense-smoke that hovered above the leaf shadows trembling on the sand.
From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Little, Frances, [pseud.]
"Because a Minister's stock of loving kindness is apt to be low on Monday, and he is tired and not disposed to frivol, or talk of unsacred things."
From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Though, under the surface, life upon Blue Lake ranch was sufficiently tense, the remaining days of June frivoled by as bright and bonny as the little meadow-blues flirting with the field-flowers.
From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Gregory, Jackson
Where he had doubted, he was now convinced; where he had frivoled, he was in deep, intense earnest; the fact that there would be certain difficulties to overcome only seemed to strengthen the inward determination.
From Flaming June by Gilbert, A.
To think that I, Geoffrey Fox, who have frittered and frivoled, should have put on paper things which have burned into men's consciousness and have made them better.
From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
To him, life is a boon, a privilege, an investment, an opportunity, a responsibility, and, therefore, a gift too precious to be squandered or frivoled away.
From The Reconstructed School by Pearson, Francis B.
But the other men made them first, you see, and I've just frivoled and played.
From Glory of Youth by Hutt, Henry
Perhaps this was intended to stifle persistent rumors of a rift between General Weygand and the Vichy Government, for otherwise it did not seem like the week for Vichymen to go frivoling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Howsomever, he had a head that could do plain thinking, a pair of shoulders that discouraged frivoling, and he was as square a piece of furniture as ever came out of a factory.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Phillips, Henry Wallace
Only occasionally I look forward to the time when I shall be an angel frivoling in the eternal blue!
From The Lady of the Decoration by Little, Frances, [pseud.]
Prue was the locust, frivoling away the summer.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
He asked her all about herself, where she lived, if she got up early, if she was busy, if she frivolled, and arrived at a mental summary of her circumstances.
From Married Life The True Romance by Edginton, May
"If I have frivolled enough, it's about time you said something."
From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames
He felt it utterly unfair that she should sit alone by an empty hearth while he and Jean frivolled.
From The Tin Soldier by Bailey, Temple
All day long the happy pair enjoyed each other’s company aloft, leaping from corn-ear to thistle-head, from thistle-head to poppy, and back again to corn-ear, feasting, frivolling, stalking bluebottles.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
She brought him to his bearings by suddenly "frivolling" again.
From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
I suppose you think I have no right to be frivolling in these very serious times, but I am afraid I am rather an offender when the humour takes me.
From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
I don't think there seemed to be any real harm in that sort of frivolling.
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver
Going, gadding, frivolling, flirting—that was the old Harvey.
From What's-His-Name by Fisher, Harrison
