fribbler

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He was an empty fribbler, who kept perpetually laughing about nothing at all.

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  1. A trifler; a coxcomb; a fribble. They whom my correspondent calls male coquets should hereafter be called fribblers. A fribbler is one who professes rapture and admiration for the woman to whom he addresses, and dreads nothing so much as her consent. Spectator, No. 288.

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  • He was an empty fribbler, who kept perpetually laughing about nothing at all. —  Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • He to whom the destiny of the realm is entrusted could scarcely be a fribbler! —  A Hungarian Nabob
  • Where this war is to carry us, what shall be its effect on us as a people, what great changes are in progress, and what may result from them, we will discuss at the proper time, in a future number IS PROGRESS A TRUTH Human nature has been the same in all ages Men are pretty much the same wherever you find them If there be anything in this world from which it would be desirable to see men delivered, it is from a certain small, cheap wisdom which expresses itself in general verdicts on all humanity, and enables the fribbler or dolt who can not see beyond his nose to give an offhand summary of the infinite. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • If there be anything in this world from which it would be desirable to see men delivered, it is from a certain small, cheap wisdom which expresses itself in general verdicts on all humanity, and enables the fribbler or dolt who can not see beyond his nose to give an offhand summary of the infinite. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
 

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