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There were few awards in fields of frivol: Oscars, Tonys, Grammys didn't exist.

From Time Magazine Archive

For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love.

From Time Magazine Archive

He only signaled to another guard—this one taller and older—who said, “Step aside, please, or we’ll have to arrest you. This is not a place to frivol with.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Werner thought little of Haydn: he regarded him as an adventurer and musical frivol; but Haydn, as became the bigger man, esteemed Werner.

From Haydn by John F. Runciman

I can’t frivol with that big question unsolved, so I’m going away quietly by myself to think it out.

From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Where he had doubted, he was now convinced; where he had frivoled, he was in deep, intense earnest; the fact that there would be certain difficulties to overcome only seemed to strengthen the inward determination.

From Flaming June by A. Gilbert

But the other men made them first, you see, and I've just frivoled and played.

From Glory of Youth by Henry Hutt

To him, life is a boon, a privilege, an investment, an opportunity, a responsibility, and, therefore, a gift too precious to be squandered or frivoled away.

From The Reconstructed School by Francis B. Pearson

To think that I, Geoffrey Fox, who have frittered and frivoled, should have put on paper things which have burned into men's consciousness and have made them better.

From Mistress Anne by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

She sneered at his ills, And quadrupled his bills, And spent nearly twice what he earned; Her husband deserted, And frivoled, and flirted, Till Ferdinand’s reason was turned.

From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Albert Levering

Perhaps this was intended to stifle persistent rumors of a rift between General Weygand and the Vichy Government, for otherwise it did not seem like the week for Vichymen to go frivoling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prue was the locust, frivoling away the summer.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes

As they sat toying and frivoling behind the curtains of the wide living room in the Nesbit home, they saw Grant Adams’s big, awkward 509figure hurrying across the lawn.

From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White

He was rather Near when it came to frivoling away the National Bank Lithographs.

From More Fables by George Ade

"If I have frivolled enough, it's about time you said something."

From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

He felt it utterly unfair that she should sit alone by an empty hearth while he and Jean frivolled.

From The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

He asked her all about herself, where she lived, if she got up early, if she was busy, if she frivolled, and arrived at a mental summary of her circumstances.

From Married Life The True Romance by May Edginton

She had a way of making the frivolling talk of the supper table appear a warrantable substitute for the things that Peter knew, even while he echoed her phrases, that he wasn't getting.

From The Lovely Lady by Gordon Grant

I don't think there seemed to be any real harm in that sort of frivolling.

From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions

I suppose you think I have no right to be frivolling in these very serious times, but I am afraid I am rather an offender when the humour takes me.

From Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Yachting on the Mediterranean, or frivolling on the Riviera.

From A Safety Match by Ian Hay

Their life was one long revel in the sunshine; for the harvest mouse has this distinction also, that, like a Christian, he loves the blue of the sky and sleeps at night. frivolling.

From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by Douglas English