How to Use frivolous in a Sentence

frivolous

adjective
  • She thinks window shopping is a frivolous activity.
  • Ford says the litigation is the work of greedy lawyers eager to line their pockets through frivolous claims.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Courts have routinely ruled that such arguments in tax matters are frivolous.
    Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The claim is frivolous, and interposed solely for delay.
    Time, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Check off a lot of the boxes expected of a minor league team: frivolous, fun, relatable, even viral.
    Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Our misalignments in the bedroom ranged from serious to frivolous, but all of them could seem to suggest something sinister.
    Mallika Rao, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2019
  • In contrast, some pieces were more frivolous and had a dream-like quality, such as the whimsical faux feather trims seen on several jackets.
    Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The idea that masculine is serious and feminine is frivolous limits the options girls see for themselves and their future lives.
    Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • To some, professional adventure may seem like the frivolous pursuit of foolhardy risk-takers.
    National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Corporations portrayed tort lawyers as ambulance chasers seeking to make a buck through frivolous litigation.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The original purpose of the voucher program has been left in the dust of expansion, private interest, and frivolous purchases.
    Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Other changes in the proposal would speed up the process of rejecting applications that don’t hold up and let the agency bar people who repeatedly make frivolous claims.
    Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Courts have routinely ruled that such arguments in tax matters are frivolous, even as early as 1884, prosecutors said.
    Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Starbucks is in the middle of a turnaround crisis, partly a failure to read the culture and partly because a fancy, expensive cup of coffee feels less like a treat these days and more like a frivolous waste of money.
    Greg Petro, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • 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 | Kwhitmire@al.com, 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
  • The judge ruled Thursday that the lawsuit by Isaac Pierce was frivolous.
    USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2020
  • 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

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