frivol

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

I thought 41 I would study some in Philadelphia, but goodness me, there wasn’t a minute’s time to do anything but frivol.

From Patty's Summer Days by Wells, Carolyn

But I ought to be staid; I can’t afford to frivol any longer, for I am going to take a most important step, and start life on my own account.”

From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

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.

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

But the other men made them first, you see, and I've just frivoled and played.

From Glory of Youth by Hutt, Henry

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)

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.

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

Oh, to show Colonel Stoddard my one-man and no-horse farm—you know, the automatically cultivated ten-acre stunt I've been frivoling with.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

Just think what I might be had I been prepared for life like Malcolm or Oliver, instead of wasting all my years frivoling.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins

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

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

"If I have frivolled enough, it's about time you said something."

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

Their life was one long revel in the sunshine; for the harvest mouse has this distinction also, that, like a Christian, he loves the blue of the sky and sleeps at night. frivolling.

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)

Going, gadding, frivolling, flirting—that was the old Harvey.

From What's-His-Name by Fisher, Harrison

Yachting on the Mediterranean, or frivolling on the Riviera.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

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