How to Use frippery in a Sentence

frippery

noun
  • The design is simple and devoid of needless frippery.
  • Fashion alone, some dress hanging on a rack, is mindless frippery.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
  • This one from chef Yotam Ottolenghi is basic with no frippery to speak of.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 26 Mar. 2026
  • How can the Zelenskys indulge in such frippery when there’s a war on?
    — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There's no melodrama or frippery in this case-by-case analysis of crime.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • These hooded towels are just extremely cute – this list’s one item of frippery.
    — Emily Gould, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • All the frippery and pressures of their lives were left behind in Palermo.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The list of standard frippery is cranked up a notch for the GLE53.
    — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Craig has a rugged charm and piercingly intelligent eyes, but isn’t prone to frippery.
    — Sophy Roberts, CNT, 28 Mar. 2017
  • The comeback has occurred in Pilsen, far from the high-rent frippery of the West Loop.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 8 Aug. 2017
  • For serious mariners, form followed function, and fripperies were frowned upon.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Again, this could be all down to the writing, to the show’s expanding storylines and self-conscious frippery.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 May 2024
  • Yes, there's the occasional hat or edgy shoe, but Sednaoui forgoes over-the-top frippery.
    — Derek Blasberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2011
  • Fans repaid her with a fierce devotion, showing up to her readings in their finest vampiric frippery.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Offices have traditionally set aside just 3-4% of floor space for such fripperies.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Blue Heaven’ transforms from a steely blue to a brilliant burgundy in the fall, perfect for front-of-the-border frippery.
    — Amy Merrick, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • All Felicia’s fab frippery and damn-the-torpedoes repartee puts the armor in glamour.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 6 May 2017
  • In the last act, Wagner removes all the frippery, with just three characters and their own personal stories.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But those sentiments still reinforce the idea that the speech of young women isn’t just empty frippery, but an active force of evil tearing apart our language.
    — Kory Stamper, The Cut, 29 Jan. 2018
  • These dramas and comedies are typically lacking in effects budgets and other frippery, and many of them will sink without a trace.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
  • In the fat times, managers could be careless with money; staff complained about spending on fripperies, such as making surroundings more pleasant.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This year has forced us all to reexamine our relationship to things, placing more importance on function over frippery.
    — Jolie Kerr, CNN Underscored, 16 Nov. 2020
  • But Anderson seemed to find humor in Gothic furniture, too — in its Baroque frippery, its weirdness.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Back in 1990, the CRX Si didn't have airbags, let alone touchscreens or digital frippery.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 13 June 2022
  • My Lightning is the ideal Lightning, bereft of frippery but fitted with the most powerful motors, an homage to its tail-happy namesake.
    — Car and Driver, 11 May 2022
  • If anything, by stripping away all of the frippery and bloat that makes Bing a slog, Ghostery offers a stirring defense of that engine's core capabilities.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The partisans behind this frippery knew full well that the Justice Department’s submissions had no legal effect.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The kind of modernism that Loos advocated was spare and austere, highlighting the function of each object or structure rather than concealing it behind layers of frippery.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Two years later, amid disappointing ticket sales, Norwegian spent $50m ripping out all the Chinese fripperies and moved the ship to Alaskan fjords.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019

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