How to Use frivolous in a Sentence

frivolous

adjective
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  • She thinks window shopping is a frivolous activity.
  • So, do more of the important stuff and less of the frivolous.
    — Bernhard Schroeder, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Some of them are what people should wear and those are the more frivolous ones.
    — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The iPod remained a fun, frivolous, maybe-sort-of fact.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Challenges that once seemed frivolous have ended up in front of the Supreme Court in the past.
    — Sarah Kliff, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
  • Tweets and frivolous lawsuits are one thing (and the Trump team has gone 1 for 32 at last count).
    — Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Of course, anyone can sue the state, but this wasn’t a frivolous lawsuit.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • This is true even if the celebrity regards the claims as false or frivolous.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • My social joy, and the social joy of those around me, is not frivolous.
    — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Some of the most popular prop bets can seem frivolous: Will the coin toss be heads or tails?
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The case was thrown out, as were the array of other frivolous lawsuits the man has filed from his prison cell.
    — Michael Balsamo, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Anyone who tries to tell you that play is frivolous is wrong.
    — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Yet the product in the ad was more frivolous than functional.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • At the time, adding one or two more $10-a-month streaming services didn’t seem frivolous.
    — Erin McCarthy, oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Some books are frivolous — you power through them on the plane and never think about or re-read them again.
    — The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 11 Dec. 2014
  • She was said to be a frivolous thing, obsessed with anything that sparkled.
    — Tori Telfer, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • There's nothing frivolous to get stuck in your head, so there's nothing to want out.
    — John Mayer, Esquire, 30 Dec. 2005
  • In the court’s view, YouTube was entitled to a fee award because Daniels' case was frivolous.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This is not a frivolous suit with zero chance of success.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Oct. 2020
  • And, let’s start with something frivolous at best and just ridiculous at worst.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
  • The reality of these black-and-white images makes the rest of the movie seem trivial, even frivolous.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
  • In fact, the visitor is a frivolous young man, Khlestakov, who has lost all his money at cards.
    — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The Dodge Challenger was—is—a pointless and frivolous machine.
    — Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2023
  • People were still coming in for Botox, fillers, rashes, all the things that seem so frivolous now.
    — Rachel Krause, refinery29.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Give in to the urge to do some frivolous shopping in the week to come rather than giving in to the temptation to make a risky investment.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 23 May 2021
  • An over-the-top impression might appear to be a frivolous concern in these dire times.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
  • There is no right to file false claims or pursue frivolous cases.
    — WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The focus tends to toggle between dark humor and the more frivolous as dictated by the times.
    — David Bauder, ajc, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The job is to be maternal, quietly decorative, fascinating but not frivolous, busy but not bold.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Many people in professions that lend themselves to litigation—like doctors and lawyers—do so to protect their assets from possibly frivolous lawsuits.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024

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