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Recent Examples of frivolity And to be brought here to discover the one-night-only production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Rob Ashford for the Tangiers Charity Plays—as well as all manner of attendant frivolities—is the icing on the cake. Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 18 July 2025 This grand vision opposes fanboy frivolity, which is the basis of Gunn’s commercialized version. Armond White, National Review, 11 July 2025 There was fun and frivolity — and, at times, even a little shade. Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 4 July 2025 Doris is practical, independent, and has no time for frivolities — and she’s passed those qualities onto her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood). Sezín Devi Koehler, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for frivolity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frivolity
Noun
  • There were a lot of bold colors in the collections, transparency and lightness.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The building has kept some of this lightness of feeling all these years later, smallish and airy, its multiple exits and entrances providing the possibility of spontaneity.
    Katie da Cunha Lewin September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even its most mean-spirited plotline, in which a married couple assemble a fake theater production to humiliate their ex-neighbor whose noisiness prompted them to move, is presented as more of a gentle exercise in silliness than anything truly vindictive.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In a throwback to the warts-and-all silliness of the family’s legendary MTV reality show, The Osbournes, Coming Home appears to lean into the domestic comedy of the Osbourne clan, opening with a jittery Ozzy begging Sharon to stop driving in a herky-jerky manner.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even on tour, fans go expecting dramatic catharsis to be undergirding all that glee.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Confetti canons shot out glittering rainbows, and Derevjanik began to dance around, shouting in glee.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Milchick, Tillman infused an unnerving cheerfulness into Lumon Industries’ macrodata refinement supervisor, a character who became increasingly central in Season 2.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Her vivacious attitude connects her with Aries (Stacey’s actual birthday is April 3) due to her fearlessness and cheerfulness in situations, no matter what is thrown at her.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This is your green light to share, teach, write, or create with levity — all the intensity has prepared you to communicate with both fire and grace.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 5 Oct. 2025
  • What better way to bring levity to a Minnesota Vikings team spending 10 days in Europe and recovering from a disastrous loss in Dublin than to bounce around the locker room with some questions about travel?
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The flippancy with which these characters are made to bite the dust establishes the film’s combustible tone.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • We’ve all been cast adrift in the cognitive dissonance between the visceral seriousness of the crime and the abject flippancy of the shooter, the brutality of the shooting and the memes reacting to Kirk’s bigoted views.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Frivolity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frivolity. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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