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frivolity

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The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. Robertson Davies

If I tended toward frivolity as a boy, I am incorrigibly settled in it now. Robertson Davies

The harebrained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. Benjamin Disraeli

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive. Karl Lagerfeld

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. Bill Griffith

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality. Frances Power Cobbe

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