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

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

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