(a.) Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.
(a.) Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters.
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.
Inconsequential
Definition:
(a.) Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
(2) It is possible, however, that neither drug can alter the natural course of this disease and may just hasten its expected inconsequential resolution.
(3) The structural underpinnings of these internal problems are assumed inconsequential and not addressed, and so is the international dimension.
(4) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
(5) To cap all this, it appears that Tesco may have massaged its bottom line by a not inconsequential quarter of a billion pounds.
(6) Recognizing that states may soon prove inconsequential to the discussion, the Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, last week shifted her stance and came out in support of gay marriage as a constitutional right.
(7) If the British government wants the best of its teachers to stick around and deliver this on home soil, it needs to provide good reasons for them to do so – and they need to be better reasons than flimsy, inconsequential pre-election workload surveys and 1% pay increases .
(8) There are pages where, unexpectedly, amid the horror, a reader feels he has stumbled on a near-inconsequential diary entry.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uruguay captain, Diego Lugano, describes Luis Suárez's alleged bite during their final World Cup group match against Italy as inconsequential After considering footage of the incident, including angles not shown on television, and other material including witness statements and the referee’s report, Sulser’s committee will decide on a sanction and whether it should apply to all matches or just international fixtures.
(10) A seven-year total population survey from south-east Queensland has revealed that, in practice, the rate of clinical poisoning due to oleander is inconsequential, and mortality is negligible.
(11) Halothane (0.5 mM) did not inhibit phorbol ester- or ionomycin-induced PRL secretion, indicating that halothane has inconsequential effects on the secretory apparatus.
(12) 1 intubation failure, 5 failures in coelioscopy, 5 uterine perforations, and 5 inconsequential vascular wounds were noted, bringing the overall rare of morbidity to 1.2%.
(13) On the other hand, costs of screening are not inconsequential, and costs involved in follow-up procedures are high.
(14) Using a grading scale for complications, 24 percent of patients had inconsequential complications, 16 percent had moderate complications, and 19 percent had severe complications.
(15) However, the incidence of breast cancer is shown in a number of case-controlled retrospective studies to be unaffected by OC use, except for certain subsets of statistically inconsequential numbers.
(16) If others share these findings, the implications for control of this disease are frightening, as the risk of transmission to patients' sexual partners is not inconsequential.
(17) But Harding's solution to the inconsequentiality of What's My Line?
(18) Liposomes prepared from octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside-extracted YAC-1 and NK-enriched effector cell membranes interfered with conjugate formation, whereas liposomes prepared from NK-insensitive P815 cells were inconsequential.
(19) The observed elevations in skin temperatures were physiologically inconsequential.
(20) Adverse effects were inconsequential and comparable in both groups.