She was not perverse, she was merely frivolous and coquettish, but she had received a vicious education.

He was convinced now that Carolyn June was utterly frivolous.

He regards the profession of arms and the pursuit of war with such intense and solemn reverence that he cannot conceive how any one calling himself a soldier can be so criminally frivolous as to write a farce round the subjectmuch less present the farce at a Flying Matinée.

Avery, inspired by the merriment around her, was in a frankly frivolous mood.

They can interest only such little minds as are of the most contemptibly frivolous description.

It was 'seria mixta jocis,' but there was practical sense in the seemingly most frivolous part of the plan.

It was a mind not so quickly receptive as he could have wished to the learning he tried patiently to impart; he wondered, indeed, if she were not unduly frivolous even for a child of six; for she would refuse to study unless she could have the doll she called Bishop Wright with her and pretend that she taught the lesson to him, finding him always stupid and loth to learn.

And, indeed, it is curious to observe that the things in which human beings seem to have attained to absolute perfection have for the most part been things comparatively frivolous,accomplishments which certainly were not worth the labor and the time which it must have cost to master them.