Sentence examples for frivolous fancy from inspiring English sources

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It was she who taught me never to compromise, never to be tempted by the frivolous fancy of the moment, to strive instead for quality".

Fashion today is frivolous, fancy, funky, flaky, functional, foolish.

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It is a happy combination of the frivolous (just fancy that!) and the threatening (help, a bear!) with resonances of a newly launched sweet, plus an ironic undertone of Russian‑ness.

The effect is fancy, if ultimately frivolous.

But it is possible to conceive of a more refined approach to this material, which provides a slyly devastating portrait of fancy British folk at their most frivolous and self-absorbed.

I sooth my guilt this way: Poinsettias are like buying into those expensive but strictly frivolous kitchen gadgets, like a super-duper vegetable juicer or a fancy food dehydrator.

How frivolous?

That might sound frivolous.

Fancy names, fancy personas.

This is no frivolous matter.

All their words are frivolous.

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