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Перевод: frivolous

[прилагательное]
легкомысленный; фривольный; пустячный; незначительный; поверхностный; пустой

Тезаурус:

1. He asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications and allow individual board members greater discretion to reduce the number of full hearings.
2. He wears his native costume, is neither extravagant or frivolous in his clothing, nor is he ever poorly dressed.
3. More than a dozen other candidates' names - some frivolous, others serious - have been bandied about, particularly since Lord Wilson's departure was brutally disclosed four months early by his elevation to the peerage at New Year.
4. Elsewhere, the close-up, detailed approach which works brilliantly, say, for Imogen Stubbs's affecting Desdemona (the pathos of her disoriented, jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw, not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically "explained" like a figure in a novel.
5. In the last example, the words form frivolous comment on the action.
6. Whether it is a potential son or daughter hardly constitutes good cause for the termination of a pregnancy, and in our society requests to do so must be deemed frivolous.
7. Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band.
8. Ashton maintained these formal changes in his frivolous "Scottish Rhapsody".
9. As the cast list expanded through royal marriages and the creation of a brood of "nearly royals" - frivolous young men and women staking a claim to attention in the gossip columns simply because another member of the family had a genuine connection with the Windsors - the roles could be constantly juggled to satisfy an appetite which had been primed by the Palace itself.
10. The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer's polemics against straight-faced, over-serious rabbinism; against those whose understanding of God's nature was austere and unfatherly; those who, while seeking to elevate the Most High, merely put him out of touch with his own children; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became "frivolous" in its intensity: not that its perpetrators could be frivolous: black was their colour, even as severity was their posture - as becomes the frozen-in-soul.
11. On Whistle Test they played live to a dead studio, previewing the album with a frivolous snippet, "Vicar In A Tutu" and, of course, "Big Mouth Strikes Again".
12. Not merely frivolous but indefensibly irresponsible.
13. It may even present a comic, frivolous or bawdy joke to arouse laughter or attempt to reveal the workings of a composer's mind.