frivol
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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
The young people had no part in the joys of the 1914 Class breakfast and "frivol" beyond laughing uproariously at the account of it which they received later from the elders who were there.
From Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
At noon one would find something like the old frivol in the Ritz Restaurant,—large parties of much-dressed and much-eating women.
From The World Decision by Robert Herrick
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
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
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
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
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
Howsomever, he had a head that could do plain thinking, a pair of shoulders that discouraged frivoling, and he was as square a piece of furniture as ever came out of a factory.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips
"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
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
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
“Stop frivolling, and let me get to my point!” commanded Raymonde.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
