frivolous
Example Sentences
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The defendants, including “Quiet on Set” producers Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz, triumphed under California’s anti-SLAPP law, which protects against frivolous lawsuits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It has nothing to do with efficiency, and actually, for something with a reputation so closely glued to antiestablishment aesthetics and fashions of the counterculture, is quite frivolous if you think about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
And that writing about those things wasn’t frivolous at all.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
To dismiss that language as frivolous, Shah argues, is to misunderstand what it is doing.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The arts that were viewed so highly in Imre were seen as frivolous by those at the University.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing frivolous
Grade 10, List 1
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