(1) The defendants delayed the trial for years with dozens of frivolous appeals.

(2) Some are serious, and some are frivolous - but all are entertaining.

(3) So they have made him arts spokesman in the hopes that he will appear serious rather than frivolous , amusing but not foolish.

(4) We are dumbfounded by frivolous concerns about violence preventing such an effort to succeed.

(5) When philosophers take liberties with language to make their distinctive points they are not frivolous .

(6) Let's not pull it apart by making extra work for administrators or managers with frivolous complaints.

(7) I do resent a Government Minister telling me I got into debt because I was flighty, frivolous and decadent.

(8) There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow.

(9) The more frivolous among them behave like teenagers on the rampage; the more serious take courses in improving subjects.

(10) They say we do not support this bill because we are frivolous and because we are jealous.

(11) Don't judges have the power to throw out frivolous lawsuits and even fine the lawyers and the litigants?

(12) Everything that she made a mental note of seemed unimportant and frivolous .

(13) She was as complex as she was caring, as frivolous as she was serious with a wicked sense of fun.

(14) Drug companies claim the union and consumer plan would encourage frivolous lawsuits.

(15) Then, if the lawsuit is frivolous , why should it produce grave consequences for Germany?

(16) But I don't think they could change it on a whim or for any frivolous reason.

(17) The outpouring of compassion for the daily deaths of thousands is suddenly treated as a frivolous distraction.

(18) This frivolous attitude towards love reflects an immature response to abrupt freedom and independence.

(19) She believed in him and she was not a frivolous person, so her opinion counted.

(20) But this was Nero, and he would not be Nero without being frivolous .