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Another word for frivolity

Noun

  1. Something or things that are unimportant

    2. See also:

    surface

    important

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Sentence Examples

  • He did not like to combine frivolity with the serious business of hunting.

  • He displays his own vanity, frivolity and futile cleverness with much unconscious humour, but, it is only fair to allow, with some literary dexterity.

  • It was at this period that, to use his own words, he "passed per saltum from frivolity to philosophy."

  • His weak points were his wanton breaches of good faith, his extravagance, his frivolity and his self-indulgence.

  • He is free from the scholastic trifling and learned frivolity which tainted the rhetorical culture of his century.

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