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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

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

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

“But thee must let Peggy frivol a little,” protested Sally.

From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

Do the girls who jest and frivol with the young men with whom they are brought in contact, realise their responsibility in all they say and do?

From Betty Trevor by Victor Prout

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

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

From Glory of Youth by Henry Hutt

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

Though, under the surface, life upon Blue Lake ranch was sufficiently tense, the remaining days of June frivoled by as bright and bonny as the little meadow-blues flirting with the field-flowers.

From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Jackson Gregory

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

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

From More Fables by George Ade

Prue was the locust, frivoling away the summer.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes

Oh, to show Colonel Stoddard my one-man and no-horse farm—you know, the automatically cultivated ten-acre stunt I've been frivoling with.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London

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

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

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

From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

Yachting on the Mediterranean, or frivolling on the Riviera.

From A Safety Match by Ian Hay

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 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

Going, gadding, frivolling, flirting—that was the old Harvey.

From What's-His-Name by Harrison Fisher

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