How to Use frivolous in a Sentence

frivolous

adjective

• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024