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Examples for "frivolity"
Examples for "frivolity"
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I am happy to relate that it proved a very popular frivolity.
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From the depths of tenderness she passed to the shallows of frivolity.
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Naughtiness and frivolity are different, and I was always deeply in earnest.
4
Certain elements at the talks did not participate, being against such frivolity.
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The count and I have but little time to give to frivolity.
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He plays the part with a clever and economic use of buffoonery.
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She is full of buffoonery and has a nice appreciation of it.
3
Nothing pleases the great chambers of sovereign man so much as buffoonery.
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A vein of irony-wemight perhaps say of buffoonery-pervadedhis whole nature.
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Comedy became, therefore, a sort of consecrated slander, lyric spite, aesthetical buffoonery.
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You think I won't get heckled when I'm up on stage clowning?'
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For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life.
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Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning?
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Once the clowning begins, Thicke says anything is bound to happen.
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All their dances are new and full of their characteristic clowning.
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It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.
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Prime ministers had succeeded each other like the clowns in a harlequinade.
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The next, he would repeat his first travesty in all its hideous harlequinade.
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A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.
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However little one may mourn the dead, something forbids a harlequinade over their graves.
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The She-Bear gave her grudging assent, deaf to the japery in his tone.
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Yet parting mist, which impressed no one, most especially not the Knife, had a cost far above such japery.
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Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.
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How the Australian barracking of Stuart Broad felt clever and affectionate, the witty japery of an intelligent and respected rival?
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Despite the japery of Newsround theme tune samples and bagpipes, this good humour is mined more from their ambitious experimentation than anything else.
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The prank caller said that his plan could have easily gone wrong.
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Each of the boys in turn became the victim of some prank.
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Whatever had happened wasn't a prank gone wrong that I'd orchestrated myself.
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And anyway, is there really any such thing as an innocent prank?
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Real funny. Tony had to admit it was a pretty good prank.
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Palin campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt confirmed she had received the prank call.
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Here are the MC's essential prank elements: Spontaneity Pranks are like flows.
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There's no way a simple prank should cause this much pressure, anyway.
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You can watch Adele's funny prank on Adele tribute singers down here:
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No wonder she'd been so up for that prank at the party.
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And like I said, I wasn't totally convinced it wasn't a prank.
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Well, the next time he hosts a party, we can prank him.
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He'd pulled the same prank on rookies coming in the bureau before.
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He told Exeter crown court that it was a prank or joke.
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She doesn't seem sarcastic and it doesn't seem to be a prank.
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I don't care what you say, this is some kind of prank.
