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单词 frivolously
释义
frivolously
adverb
uk
/ˈfrɪv.əl.əs.li/us
/ˈfrɪv.əl.əs.li/
in asillyway that does not take somethingseriously:
"We didn't make thisdecisionfrivolously," she said.
Many of us have atendencytospendmoneyfrivolously.
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frivolous
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  • Theylookedtheidealcouple- frivolouslyglamorousand verybeautiful.
  • She waspleasedthat he wasabletotalkso frivolously.
  • It’sprettyeasyjust toreadfrivolously, like you canwatchTV frivolously.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not showing careful thought
  • airily
  • airiness
  • airy
  • bash
  • bashsomethingout
  • cuff
  • frivolity
  • frivolous
  • ill-conceived
  • incautious
  • incautiously
  • off the cuffidiom
  • preconceived
  • shallow
  • shallowly
  • shallowness
  • shoot from the hipidiom
  • thoughtless
  • unconsidered
  • unthinking
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(Definition offrivolouslyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffrivolously

frivolously
Only when she hears his 'sincere' voice usedfrivolouslycan she comprehend that she was deceived.
From theCambridge English Corpus
According to my informants, anyone might use these oaths "freely and evenfrivolously" without incurring any legal penalty whatsoever.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We have no rightfrivolouslyto dispose of the confidence which thousands of people have reposed in us.
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That very important measure was scuppered in the other place, quite franklyfrivolouslyand disgracefully.
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I was not saying the comptroller used his powers wrongly orfrivolously.
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It is the sum total of what people do—whether they stay in or whether they go out and spendfrivolously, or on consumer durables.
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I wonder—somewhatfrivolouslyperhaps—about the expression, "persons to act as organists and choir masters (by whatever name called)".
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Does he accept, finally, that there may be adequate cause for awarding costs out of public funds in certain cases that are broughtfrivolously?
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We must maintain popular support for the process, and notfrivolouslyturn support into cynicism and scepticism.
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It is not susceptible of being usedfrivolously.
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I am not raising the matterfrivolouslyor for any small advantage.
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We did not make our decisionfrivolously; we went into the matter in great detail.
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But there have been cases of membership being withdrawn almostfrivolously.
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Far from being of real help to our allies, what they are proposing isfrivolouslyraising their expectations without providing the means to fulfil them.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We do not take itfrivolouslyin any sense.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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