frivoling

Example Sentences

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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.]

As they sat toying and frivoling behind the curtains of the wide living room in the Nesbit home, they saw Grant Adams’s big, awkward 509figure hurrying across the lawn.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen