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- adjective Not
frivolous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Time was when the Romance section of the bookstore was a safe and cozy retreat from all things unfrivolous.
*Romance of the Caribbean or All About Reforming The Monster arhyalon 2007
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This all sounds unfashionably unfrivolous -- by "" people, '' he doesn't mean Leonardo DiCaprio -- and unironic.
Doing A Doubletake 2008
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As a whole the place was serious, severe, adequate, unfrivolous.
Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007
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As a whole the place was serious, severe, adequate, unfrivolous.
Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007
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In short, these Sumatran young girls carried much of the wealth of their parents on their persons, and were entitled to wear it until they should be relegated to the ranks of the married -- the supposed-to-be unfrivolous, and the evidently unadorned!
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In short, these Sumatran young girls carried much of the wealth of their parents on their persons, and were entitled to wear it until they should be relegated to the ranks of the married -- the supposed-to-be unfrivolous, and the evidently unadorned!
Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859
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But, either because of scheduling problems or because of Crow's unfrivolous concern that she would be required to sleep with at least one current band member, the All I Wanna Do singer passed.
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