What's the difference between frivolity and moria?

Frivolity


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s leading centre of Islamic learning, called on Muslims to “ignore the nasty frivolity” of the latest edition.
  • (2) Kleiner Perkins’ lawyer Lynne Hermle said in closing arguments that Pao’s claims were “meritless and frivolous”.
  • (3) In this Article the Author endorses countersuits as the most appropriate response to frivolous medical malpractice actions.
  • (4) A spokesman for the UK's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said the treaty's provisions are designed to discourage frivolous investor-state disputes.
  • (5) The scent of grilled seafood and herbs; a refreshing salad; some tiny potatoes with summer herbs and a frivolous dessert of fruit and cream is not too much to ask.
  • (6) I’m hoping the stadium is well policed and I’m hoping we will be OK.” The hope, then, is the night will bring as dramatic a reckoning as can be served by that wonderful frivolity, a football match.
  • (7) But he said he found complaints about the system frivolous, noting that the existence of superdelegates “should not have been a surprise to either” candidate.
  • (8) Legally Blonde Beneath its fluffy and frivolous exterior, Legally Blonde has feminism coming out the proverbial.
  • (9) It would be lamentable if one consequence of the fictitious abortion requests made by the Telegraph were to add fuel to this view, implying that real women's requests for abortion are frivolous or unconsidered.
  • (10) To fuse an object of feminine adornment, of frivolity, with a bullet: that is Khaled's story, the reason behind her image's enduring power.
  • (11) Fringed by horse chestnut, sycamore and maple trees – which conservationists say could succumb in future – the garden is dark and shocking amid the frivolous yellows and pinks of most of Chelsea's other exhibits.
  • (12) In order to comprehend the controversy, it is necessary to take on account the process that has been followed for the concepts formation, by no one manner it can be taken with frivolity and less to under-value it.
  • (13) Naturally enough, the New Snobbery is not restricted to the more frivolous end of our pop culture.
  • (14) The beauty salon is a place of frivolity to where they can briefly escape and put the world to rights before returning home at the end of the day with a fresh perspective and a bouncier perm.
  • (15) On Wednesday Lively described the legal action as absurd and frivolous.
  • (16) Rory Carroll (@rorycarroll72) Zuckerberg channels Aristotle #facebook : 'A lot of the world thinks being connected is frivolous.
  • (17) Critics cited the law – a " distorted " version – and as the online debate gathered momentum, even Godwin himself appeared in the comments section of Greenwald's articles, explaining that his law sought to "discourage frivolous, but not substantive, Nazi analogies and comparisons".
  • (18) Anytime anyone wants to argue for tort reform (usually right wingers who want to protect giant corporations from the little man who is out to get them), or impose more restrictions on our freedom of movement, the case is trotted out as an example of America's addiction to frivolous law suits.
  • (19) The candidate to cosmetic surgery is not, contrary to a too common idea, a frivolous creature trying to become more beautiful.
  • (20) A Zimbabwean hunter who led the expedition that killed Cecil the lion has described charges against him as frivolous.

Moria


Definition:

  • (n.) Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A housewife, 42 years old, died from a chronic progressive neuro-psychiatric illness of 15 years duration characterized by memory disturbance, moria-syndrome, euphoria, social disorder and extrapyramidal symptoms combined with a severe bone disease.
  • (2) Between 3,000 and 4,000 migrants have fled the camp of Moria,” a police source said, attributing the exodus to fires that rapidly swept through the facility because of high winds.
  • (3) On Monday, scores of irate residents in Moria, a village above the camp, marched through the town of Mytilene protesting against the prospect of a second detention centre being built in the area and denouncing the mayor, Spyros Galinos, as a traitor who had ignored local people in favour of refugees.
  • (4) In September, thousands were forced to flee Moria after members of Greece’s neo-fascist Golden Dawn party set fire to the facility .
  • (5) A 58 years woman with muco-epidermitis carcinoma of the left parotid gland treated by parotidectomy and external radiation developed seven years later a left hemianopsia and moria related to thalamo-capsulo-lenticular lesions.
  • (6) Moria, the island’s main facility, was built to house less than half that number.
  • (7) Anthrax outbreak triggered by climate change sickens dozens in Arctic Circle Aid workers accused of trying to convert Muslim refugees Christians working in Greece’s most notorious asylum detention centre have tried to convert Muslim detainees by distributing conversion forms inside copies of Arabic translations of St John’s gospel to people held at the Moria detention camp on Lesbos.
  • (8) The IRC warned of these life-threatening conditions months ago yet still now with this weather we face a life-or-death situation.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pictures of Moria under a blanket of snow have caused consternation.
  • (9) The detention centre at Moria has capacity to house no more than 3,000 but is said to be holding almost twice that number following the uptick and amid fears the EU-Turkey deal – agreed earlier this year to staunch the flows – could be on the verge of collapse.
  • (10) Did they know their rights?” Volunteers, she said, had decided to go to Moria with megaphones to “let them know what their rights are so that they are not bullied into this process”.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man stands next to a snow-covered tent in the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos.
  • (12) I really cannot tell you when the next readmission will happen.” The vast majority of the 2,800 detainees in Moria have applied for asylum, which will inevitably delay the process as their requests are examined and heard.
  • (13) Up in the hills above Mytilene, more than 2,800 migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are being held in a detention camp surrounded with barbed wire, daubed with graffiti and guarded around the clock, outside the village of Moria.
  • (14) Recently more than 4,000 people at the Moria camp in Lesbos – the island that has borne the brunt of the inflows – were evacuated after frustrated inmates set fire to the vastly overcrowded facility .
  • (15) Human rights groups have criticised conditions in Moria and an estimated 50 detention centres elsewhere in Greece as deplorable and depraved.
  • (16) These include a Lego version of the Mines of Moria sequence from the Lord of the Rings films and an electronic dance version of Hasbro's popular family game Twister.
  • (17) What we know is that 90% of [those in] the Moria camps have applied for asylum,” said Lieutenant Zacharia Tsirigoti, who runs the Greek department for refugees.
  • (18) The most important thing now is what happens to those in Moria who have applied for asylum and fear that they are next,” said Gauri van Gulik, Amnesty’s deputy Europe director.
  • (19) Subsequently, euphoria, disinhibition, moria and mild dementia appeared with neurological symptoms.
  • (20) Greece-based volunteers, who protested at the quay on Lesbos, said they would visit the camp at Moria “with megaphones” to inform detainees of their rights.

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