frivol
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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
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
I've done nothing but dress and curl my hair, and polish my face, and dance, and flirt and frivol the time away.
From God's Good Man by Marie Corelli
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
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
But the other men made them first, you see, and I've just frivoled and played.
From Glory of Youth by Henry Hutt
Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Only occasionally I look forward to the time when I shall be an angel frivoling in the eternal blue!
From The Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little
Just think what I might be had I been prepared for life like Malcolm or Oliver, instead of wasting all my years frivoling.
From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty
"If I have frivolled enough, it's about time you said something."
From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet
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
She brought him to his bearings by suddenly "frivolling" again.
From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
All day long the happy pair enjoyed each other’s company aloft, leaping from corn-ear to thistle-head, from thistle-head to poppy, and back again to corn-ear, feasting, frivolling, stalking bluebottles.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by Douglas English
“Stop frivolling, and let me get to my point!” commanded Raymonde.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
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
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
