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Example sentences for "frivolity"

Lexicographically close words:
frittered; frittering; fritters; friuolous; frivolities; frivolous; frivolously; friz; frize; frizzed
  1. Frivolity is an excellent, because an unsuspected mask, under which serious and important designs may be safely concealed.

  2. In her manners and conversation there is an odd mixture of frivolity and address, of the airs of coquetry and the jargon of sentiment.

  3. The divorce colony, all frivolity and gaiety," you say?

  4. By one of those strange caprices of human frivolity which disconcert the historian, this insignificant incident is the only recollection which now remains in the memory of the people.

  5. He had the glory of giving to Ecclesiastical music that sweet and solemn character which has descended through ages, and to which we must always return after the most prolonged aberrations of frivolity and innovation.

  6. They drank deeply; they played high; they very seldom went to church, for Sunday was the fashionable day for all kinds of frivolity and amusement.

  7. Illustration: All kinds of frivolity and amusement] And it must be remembered that the English women of that day were such as England may well hope never to see again.

  8. So that, weary of frivolity myself, my wife would avenge my defection.

  9. Sabina, who followed her to the cab, heard her tell the man to drive to the box-office of the Frivolity Theatre.

  10. I will go to the Frivolity myself, and see whether I can learn anything about it there.

  11. Jenkins says that Miss West used to act at the Frivolity Theatre--he's seen her there about two years ago.

  12. Such things had happened before, he knew, during Mr. Ferguson's reign; and the Frivolity did not bear the very best character in the world.

  13. He was a violinist in the Frivolity orchestra.

  14. Whoso does not see the frivolity of the world is himself most frivolous.

  15. It is plain that the frivolity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say it is foolish to seek for greatness, and this is great cause for wonder.

  16. Nothing better shows the frivolity of men than to consider what are the causes and what the effects of love, for all the universe is changed by them.

  17. Ideas of frivolity are attached to imperfect acquirement in certain directions, and ideas of gravity to equally imperfect acquirement in others.

  18. It may have been impelled by curiosity, or have got there through frivolity or accident in the dark; anyway, the nose resented the presence of a foreign body and gave the signal for a sneeze.

  19. In a word, everything was said that gossip and meddling and frivolity and low malice could invent.

  20. But Marynia stood out before him on that ground of corruption and frivolity so unlike them, so pure and reliable, that he was moved to the depth of his soul by the mere thought of her.

  21. Much of his conversation, which Stumpff records, is devoted to a condemnation of the frivolity and bad musical taste of the Viennese, and excessive laudation of everything English.

  22. His speeches are not free from frivolity nor always from flattery, but he lived at a time and among a people accustomed to extravagant compliments and there can be no doubt of his reverence for Beethoven's genius.

  23. I for one greatly prefer the sort of frivolity that is thrown to the surface like froth to the sort of frivolity that festers under the surface like slime.

  24. Most of the men smile; they seek behind Mascha's naivete calculating frivolity seeking for adventures.

  25. He had lost the good-for-nothing charm of former days with the frivolity which was the foundation of this charm.

  26. Notices of the gambling and frivolity of a portion of the upper class, some not before printed, are given in Sir G.

  27. Entirely independent of public opinion, those of them who loved vice or frivolity indulged their tastes without shame or measure.

  28. But to speak more seriously: Is modern journalism, then, nothing but a reflection of the frivolity of the day, of the passing love of notoriety?

  29. And this was the conduct of a man then in the highest position of life, whose example must have been a model to the multitude, and in whom even frivolity would be a crime.

  30. There is in the spirit of the foreigner a kind of gross levity, an affectation of frivolity with respect to women, and a continual habit of vulgar vanity, which seems to run through all ranks and ages of the continental world.

  31. He was weary of the mechanical metallic frivolity of smart people, frivolity without one touch of sincerity and earnestness to give it contrast and effect.

  32. Waiter, I want a box at the Frivolity to-night; see about it, please.

  33. The capacity for frivolity is always there.

  34. The trouble will be," said Malcourt, "that you will miss the brightness and frivolity of things.

  35. Between piety and frivolity there is a half-and-half state, and that is the worst of all.

  36. Piety sees everything as holy; appearances are only a veil, while Frivolity sees nothing as holy.

  37. Piety is the law of God; Frivolity has released herself from the law of God, and sports with the world of appearances according to her own pleasure.

  38. He had nothing but contempt for the sparrow-like frivolity of fashionable Society, and was repelled from the middle classes by their servitude to conventions, their prejudices social and political, and their non-receptivity to ideas.

  39. It must be intense reaction against the drab monotony of life at the Front that is responsible for the outbreak of frivolity that is said to have been the leading characteristic of life in London and elsewhere of late.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frivolity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amusement; buffoonery; diversion; eccentricity; emptiness; fatuity; festivity; flippancy; folly; foolery; foolishness; frivolity; froth; fun; futility; glee; hilarity; idiocy; idleness; imbecility; inanity; ineptitude; insanity; jocularity; jollity; joviality; joy; joyfulness; laughter; levity; lightness; lunacy; madness; merriment; mirth; nonsense; play; playfulness; prank; raillery; shallowness; stupidity; superficiality; thoughtlessness; trickery; triviality; vanity; volatility; waggery