0 behaviour that is silly and not serious, or things that are silly and not important: --
1 foolish behavior, or something silly or unimportant: --
I hope that my own frivolity will be divined as having a serious purpose.
Overworking, inducing overtiredness, can be as dangerous as too much frivolity, or too much gambling, too much of going to the "flicks," and so on.
This was attributed to frivolity because those people didn't believe in any phylloxera danger, or it was attributed to spite, especially to take revenge on the government agencies.
Cheyne knew something was needed to grab the public's attention once more, and fast; perhaps 'amusement' and 'frivolity' were exactly what was necessary.
Fringe, in all its excess and frivolity, makes all kinds of edges available, interesting, approachable, and tactilely inviting.
However, fashion attracted him in the first place because it was associated with frivolity, fleeting fads, expense, and meaninglessness.
As such, it necessarily appeared to the hadith folk as frivolity, a reprehensible distraction from the performance of universal religious duties.
We sense that the mediation between, on the one hand, external discipline and respectability, and inner frivolity on the other, is of a precarious nature.
