frivolity

Example Sentences

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Instead, like a still condensing sugar-saturated slop into a refined liquor, this downsizing concentrates the force of his images, shifting the mood from one of frivolity to seriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

This is what political scientists call "tactical frivolity".

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

It’s been a tough morning on all of us, her supervisor sighs, “and I thought a little frivolity would be just what the doctor ordered.”

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

But if Gannett goes the way of Disney and settles this, the frivolity will only deepen.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2024

The mother looked young, and the daughter looked old; the mother’s complexion was pink, and the daughter’s was yellow; the mother set up for frivolity, and the daughter for theology.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens