frivolities
Example Sentences
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Every moment he spends on such frivolities is a missed opportunity to advance his cause.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
The navy did not want its midshipmen wasting their time on such frivolities.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025
Yet it’s often the case — now as then — that expressions of personal style among serious people are deemed frivolities.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023
Vargas Llosa has long kept the imaginative territory of his serious political works fenced off from the hedonistic frivolities of Don Rigoberto.
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015
Even the frivolities of the world were not beneath his notice.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
