frivolities
Example Sentences
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Every moment he spends on such frivolities is a missed opportunity to advance his cause.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
The navy did not want its midshipmen wasting their time on such frivolities.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025
Yet it’s often the case — now as then — that expressions of personal style among serious people are deemed frivolities.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023
Vargas Llosa has long kept the imaginative territory of his serious political works fenced off from the hedonistic frivolities of Don Rigoberto.
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015
The hermit was, indeed, none other than William, Earl of Warwick, a renowned champion, who, tired of the frivolities of the Court, had gone on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
