frivolous
Example Sentences
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Frivolous suits may have reached a new, dangerous level in one firm’s alleged $1 million bounty for third-party legal trolling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Shake It Off, meanwhile, is the ultimate "glitter gel pen" song: "Frivolous, carefree, bouncy, syncopated perfectly to the beat."
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022
Frivolous anger functions differently, acting more like an opioid than a benign stimulant.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2021
Frivolous lawsuits are as old as defamation law, and since the 1980s, some states have tried to curb the problem through “anti-SLAPP” laws.
From The Verge • Sep. 18, 2019
They’ve got the swimming pool on total lockdown...because high school pools were the only ones that were excluded from the Frivolous Use Initiative.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing frivolous
Grade 10, List 1
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