frivol

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

I imagine that Mr. Yates desires to show that, although certain people could frivol with the worst, they could also fight and die bravely.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman

My capacity for frivol has died a violent death, and I feel all ‘out of the picture’ in a ballroom.

From A Question of Marriage by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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

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

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

From Glory of Youth by Henry Hutt

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

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

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

Prue was the locust, frivoling away the summer.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes

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

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

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

From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

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

“Stop frivolling, and let me get to my point!” commanded Raymonde.

From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon

She brought him to his bearings by suddenly "frivolling" again.

From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

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