Frivolous

Examples

• The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people on the most frivolous pretexts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In her estimation, to be mirthful was to be profane, to be cheerful was to be frivolous. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The same frivolous passions, which influence their conduct, influence his. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But you must have three weeks to do India properly, her husband conceded, anxious to have it understood that he was no frivolous globe-trotter. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Meess Lucie has regarded this ceremony as too frivolous to be honoured by her observance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They are still more frivolous, who say, that every effect must have a cause, because it is implyed in the very idea of effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What will our friends think of us, who may chance to be upon the street and witness our frivolous antics? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But this distinction is entirely frivolous. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But they were kindly people, in spite of the frivolous life they led, and soon put their guest at her ease. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I certainly do not admire the end he serves: the extension of an autocrat's power is a frivolous perversion of government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It seems like profanation to laugh and jest and bandy the frivolous chat of our day amid its hoary relics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As if it were not very painful to me to see you an idle frivolous creature. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I recognize that the red herring is more often frivolous and personal--a matter of misrepresentation and spite--than an honest attempt to enlarge the scope of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The few chapters relating to the infancy of the Saviour contain many things which seem frivolous and not worth preserving. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When once the spirit of dissension had arisen, the most frivolous causes gave it activity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Though he said all this in his frivolous way, the way seemed, for that once, a conscious polishing of but an ugly surface. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There is not, perhaps, any selfish pleasure so frivolous, of which the pursuit has not sometimes ruined even sensible men. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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