Fraud includes deceit, but deceit may not reach the gravity of fraud; a cheat is of the nature of fraud, but of a petty sort; a swindle is more serious than a cheat, involving larger values and more flagrant dishonesty.
That is fanciful which is dictated or suggested by fancy independently of more serious considerations; the fantastic is the fanciful with the added elements of whimsicalness and extravagance.
The softness of the air, the stillness of the foliage, tacitly imposed upon these young girls an engagement to change immediately their giddy conversation for one of a more serious character.
We have Bridge's word for this; and the matter would hardly be worth mentioning if it had not led to more serious proceedings.
But the ordinances as to the salt-tax were maintained in principle, and their extension led, some years afterwards, to a rising of a more serious character, and very differently repressed.
More serious causes of resentment came to aggravate a situation already so uncomfortable.
But, what is more serious, we have discouraged that boy.
Failure to enforce health laws is a more serious menace to health and morals than drunkenness or tobacco cancer.
Then a more serious application to the earlier stages of that somewhat lengthy road which every aspirant must plod who would follow the artist's career.
But its author had long been preparing for a more serious undertaking.
Many of the financial convulsions of the ensuing years, which were due to more serious causes, were attributed to this indiscriminate removal of restrictions, and they were reimposed in 1801.
Aristotle proceeded to a more serious investigation of the aesthetic phenomena so as to develop by scientific analysis certain principles of beauty and art.
As to your apprehensions concerning the more advantageous situation of Ireland for some branches of commerce, (for it is so but for some,) I trust you will not find them more serious.
A civil war of paper might end in a more serious war; for now remonstrance met remonstrance, and memorial was opposed to memorial.
The subject matter may, perhaps, hereafter appear to merit a more serious consideration.
To these sources of dissatisfaction is added a more serious factor.
Anna had already heard somewhere a more serious version, namely, that children, are little angels living in heaven, and are brought from heaven by the stork.
Sometimes the resistances are of a more serious character.
They were merely establishing contact as a prelude to more serious operations.
A more serious effect of the rain was to jeopardize the supply arrangements by rendering the roads almost impassable.
A more serious cause of constipation, and sometimes of intestinal obstruction, is found in stenosis of the bowel from the healing of the ulcers of long-standing chronic catarrh.
In chronic gout and in connection with the granular kidney a more serious form of glycosuria is occasionally observed.
Of a more serious nature is the tape-worm embryo which produces the hydatid tumor.
It is enough to say, that I found just what I expected to, and that I think this attack is only the prelude of more serious consequences,--which expression means you very well know what.
His tones were becoming lower and more serious; there were slight breaks once or twice in the conversation; Myrtle had cast down her eyes.
The other is of more serious purport, and applies to such as contemplate a change of condition,--matrimony, in fact.
Perhaps the reader may smile at the mention of such trivial indispositions, but in more sensitive natures death itself follows in some cases from no more serious cause.
He now lived in a more serious vein, and felt a deeper, more satisfying happiness.
For those who think with him, the Serbs, in uniting with the Croats, have already surmounted a more serious obstacle.
One part of it consists of poetry of a more serious character, such as hymns, moral poems, and especially satirical pieces.
There had arisen, however, by the side of this satire which smelt somewhat too much of the tavern, another satire, more serious, which still contained a little of the style of Rabelais.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more serious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
