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Trifling   /trˈaɪflɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Trifle  v. t.  
1.
To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. (Obs.)
2.
To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. "We trifle time."


Trifle  v. i.  (past & past part. trifled; pres. part. trifling)  To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. "They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us."
To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.


adjective
Trifling  adj.  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.





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"Trifling" Quotes from Famous Books



... complaints causeless. Her mother could not have been more careful than her aunt was, that Christie should not put her hand to work beyond her strength. But probably her mother would have felt that a child might become weary, even to disgust, of a never-ending, never-changing routine of trifling duties, that brought no pleasant excitement in their train, that could scarcely be named or numbered when the day was done, yet whose performance required time and strength and patience beyond her power to give. But if her ...
— Christie Redfern's Troubles • Margaret Robertson
... night, Captain Winstanley had heard every syllable that Vixen had said; with some trifling and unconscious exaggerations, hardly to be avoided by a woman of Mrs. Tempest's character, in the narration of ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon
... civilizes the other races or devotes them to extinction. And yet South America is naturally better than North. It is richer and more productive, and endowed with a system of rivers compared with which that of the Mississippi seems trifling. Had it been settled by Anglo-Saxons and Germans instead of Creoles and mixed breeds, it would long since have worn another aspect; steamboats would have covered the rivers up to the very foot of the Cordilleras, and the vast plains would have been occupied ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various
... conditions.[14] (b) The stability of social life is being threatened even more seriously by a self-centred individualism. Marriage is considered as a merely temporary arrangement which may be terminated at will. It is contended that divorce should be granted on the easiest terms, and the most trifling reasons are seriously put forward as legitimate grounds for the annulling of the holiest of vows. Without discussing these disintegrating influences, it is enough to say that the trend of history is against any radical tampering with the institution of marriage, and any attempt to disparage ...
— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander
... Victoria Hotel one looks straight across a flat of trifling width to a lofty mountain barrier, which has a gateway in it shaped like an inverted pyramid. Beyond this gateway arises the vast bulk of the Jungfrau, a spotless mass of gleaming snow, into the sky. The gateway, in the dark-colored barrier, makes a strong frame for the great picture. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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