skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "trifle" in a sentence

    trifle example sentences

    trifle


    trifled


    trifles


    trifling


    1. “Not much, a trifle really”, he said as he backed away towards the aisle with


    2. "I will show you what it means to trifle with me


    3. "We can buy it if you like, that's a trifle, a pair of old captain's bars, a few inches of low-temp tubing


    4. "Your antimatter condensate is the only significance your expedition has to God and it is a trifle that has caused blurred thinking in only a few


    5. He seems a trifle tense


    6. I believe I may have actually skipped a trifle as I


    7. wrote yesterday about wil be a trifle, but I


    8. One day, I had worked so hard on this trifle, and she said, oh dear, I don’t think


    9. No landlord shares with him in its produce, and, the share of the sovereign is commonly but a trifle


    10. Waste lands, of the greatest natural fertility, are to be had for a trifle

    11. Then they both realized that the conversation had gotten a trifle morbid and had changed the subject and argued about who had been the better dancer


    12. 1 gun was swung into position, and the layer looked over his sights, depressing the piece a trifle


    13. My arms still looked a little too thin, my collarbones a trifle too prominent, but it was otherwise perfect


    14. Winston Churchill, the First Sea Lord, may seem a trifle irrational


    15. ” Sim moaned a trifle bitterly


    16. Surely a machine of your higher intellect and quite evident power can only treat this inadvertent mishap as nothing more than a tedious trifle and I must say so, I’m considered well traveled from where we come from but I’ve never met such a charismatic personality such as yours


    17. Meredith pricked up his ears a trifle and a gleam flashed into his dreamy dark eyes


    18. " Jerry hooted when he heard the ghost story--which Mary repeated as she fried the fish, touching it up a trifle or so, since Walter had gone to help Faith to set the table


    19. 18 Now therefore my Lord king note this child has risen up in their stead in Egypt, to do according to their deeds and to trifle with every king, prince and judge


    20. 18 Now therefore my Lord king note this child has risen up in their stead in Egypt to do according to their deeds and to trifle with every king prince and judge

    21. Tom saw a hssswwx spear coming at him and dodged a trifle late


    22. "Accept this trifle," I handed him a silver bit, "and buy additional refreshments while we rush to carry out our requirements


    23. "A trifle rough


    24. It was seven years since I’d seen my physics teacher but he looked no older – just a trifle shorter and less imposing


    25. His grandfather, a lean sixty year-old with cheekbones you could slit your wrists on, spoke excellent English although his smile was a trifle disconcerting – exposing a full set of stainless steel dentures


    26. At the time I thought it a trifle paranoid, but now I realise it was pretty close to the truth


    27. His reputation for discipline was legendary in the embassy and he wasn’t someone to trifle with because he didn’t suffer fools or subordinates lightly


    28. Despite their new robes and hoods they couldn’t help feeling a trifle nervous when an internal door opened to admit the most handsome man either had ever seen


    29. Her husband’s eyes were a trifle weepy as he bestowed the first loving hug and kiss she had received in years


    30. Dressed in their brashest and best they dined well, if a trifle expensively considering another car was on the shopping list, at a bistro on the waterfront

    31. Better it would be if you would cease to trifle with my words and seek for the living water which I have this day offered you


    32. Khemsa gazed at him cautiously and a trifle uncertainly


    33. The Rakhsha had learned the full flood of his own power when he faced at bay the knives of the maddened Wazulis in the ravine behind Khurum village; but the Cimmerian's resistance had perhaps shaken his new-found confidence a trifle


    34. This poor widow cast in more than all the others, for all these others, from their superfluity, cast in some trifle as a gift, but this poor woman, even though she is in want, gave all that she had, even her living


    35. The birds glided in and if the landing was a trifle rough, at least it was on dry land and all in one piece


    36. This Evan I could handle, but the other attractive tender sexy Evan I wouldn’t dare trifle with


    37. Vampires aren’t known to be peaceful and trifle with death more easily


    38. She looked in the fridge for something to eat but there was nothing appetising, some cheap, plastic ham that Darren liked, leftover chicken curry from three nights ago, soup, a block of cheddar and some leftover trifle


    39. “You don’t have to bother the Council about this trifle,” I said to Gehlen


    40. : The Story Of Stax Records may be a trifle long, but it tells of the Memphis Sound that came out of that city in Tennessee – that of rhythm and blues

    41. instantly coming face to face with an attractive, though a trifle


    42. Given the intense scrutiny under which public officials had been placed after last year’s debacle, there could be no doubt that the travel expenses had been legitimate—unless Spalding had been very careless and perhaps a trifle arrogant or stupid


    43. The likeness of one to the other was incredible with Anton being a trifle bigger around the waist line and having maybe more hair than his sibling; or was it a rug? A perfect set of dentures fashioned the smile of Sir Alex Clegg whereas the perpetual sneer of his brother did little to conceal the same strong features


    44. Annie knew that the situation wouldn’t last, so, as soon as the trifle had been eaten, she told Alicia and Brett that they could get down and not bother with the dishes - she’d take care of them


    45. It was a trifle sore from the workout


    46. It was a trifle warm in the small, dark room, and perspiration was forming on his brow


    47. “It’s not that hard,” I remonstrated, a trifle irritated that he was trying to discourage her from venturing a guess


    48. The guard came over, a trifle warily


    49. She smiled back, a trifle warily


    50. but…that Lady is not to be trifle with














































    1. a man to be trifled with


    2. Not to be trifled with


    3. The punishment he would then receive had enough of Jenkins' own personal methods of inflicting humiliation, whilst cleverly keeping within the rules, making this teacher seem yet more like someone not to be trifled with


    4. Larkey is not to be trifled with


    5. The one facing Daphnie sneered at the sight of facing a female but quickly found that she was not to be trifled with once there was two feet of steel sticking through


    6. These witches are not to be trifled with


    7. That symbiotic relationship had an upside given the fact that Bob Nakamura was now a very powerful Black Dragon---one with serious clout in the department and one that couldn’t be trifled with at any cost


    8. Still, a battleship of Elizabeth's capabilities even without the three large cargo pods was not to be trifled with


    9. Besides, as the local Haganah commander, I can tell you that those robots should not be trifled with: they wiped out the Nazis and the Japanese Army in mere weeks


    10. Nancy nearly exploded then but restrained herself, to the supervisor�s relief: she had proved in the last few days that she was not to be trifled with lightly

    11. It was not, Obeast could sense, be one to be trifled with


    12. and the girl got the very real impression that he was not a man to be trifled with


    13. not to be trifled with


    14. It now realized that this Oogie was truly very dangerous, a force that should not have been trifled with


    15. message to the world that Islam is not to be trifled with


    16. “I suggest,” Pine moved toward him again showing his authority and power, dominating to prove he was not to be trifled with


    17. I have mis-spent my time, trifled away my opportunities, have followed after lying vanities, and forsaken my own mercies


    18. His name was Valois and he was not a man to be trifled with


    19. We were good marriage prospects but the family girls were not to be trifled with


    20. Egypt's sun is not to be trifled with

    21. It may seem petty but you trifled with my affections when I made overtures towards you and only now, when you are in need, do you deign to respond


    22. They will know that I can’t be trifled with and their hypocrisy


    23. won’t be trifled with, I will not tolerate rejection


    24. am not to be trifled with, I am the Lord who loves, but reject ME and


    25. Their demise had only added to the agency’s reputation as an organization not to be trifled with


    26. On seeing this, Don Fernando, persuaded that Luscinda had befooled, slighted, and trifled with him, assailed her before she had recovered from her swoon, and tried to stab her with the dagger that had been found, and would have succeeded had not her parents and those who were present prevented him


    27. He dances divinely, but he will excuse me, as you are an old friend," said Amy, hoping that the name would have a good effect, and show Laurie that she was not to be trifled with


    28. Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had--assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings--given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself


    29. Marianne's ideas were still, at intervals, fixed incoherently on her mother, and whenever she mentioned her name, it gave a pang to the heart of poor Elinor, who, reproaching herself for having trifled with so many days of illness, and wretched for some immediate relief, fancied that all relief might soon be in vain, that every thing had been delayed too long, and pictured to herself her suffering mother arriving too late to see this darling child, or to see her rational


    30. that finding it grew not to be trifled with any longer, I prepared for

    31. There was that in her young voice that told that she was not a one to be lightly trifled with


    32. Why, then, had he come hither? Was it but the mockery of penitence? A mockery, indeed, but in which his soul trifled with itself! A mockery at which angels blushed and wept, while fiends rejoiced, with jeering laughter! He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure


    33. Raoul, how that little fairy of the North has trifled with you! Was it really, was it really necessary to have so fresh and young a face, a forehead so shy and always ready to cover itself with the pink blush of modesty in order to pass in the lonely night, in a carriage and pair,


    34. Brooke felt a remarkable change in his sensations while he still handled his eye-glass, trifled with documents before him, and exchanged remarks with his committee, as a man to whom the moment of summons was indifferent


    35. The thing failed this time, however, so the boys shouldered their tools and went away feeling that they had not trifled with fortune, but had fulfilled all the requirements that belong to the business of treasure-hunting


    36. Of course he was not to be trifled with either- in a word, he was a real master!’


    37. “She’s trifled with you


    38. Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had—assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings—given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself


    39. Marianne’s ideas were still, at intervals, fixed incoherently on her mother, and whenever she mentioned her name, it gave a pang to the heart of poor Elinor, who, reproaching herself for having trifled with so many days of illness, and wretched for some immediate relief, fancied that all relief might soon be in vain, that every thing had been delayed too long, and pictured to herself her suffering mother arriving too late to see this darling child, or to see her rational


    40. Henry Crawford had trifled with her feelings; but she had very long allowed and even sought his attentions, with a jealousy of her sister so reasonable as ought to have been their cure; and now that the conviction of his preference for Maria had been forced on her, she submitted to it without any alarm for Maria's situation, or any endeavour at rational tranquillity for herself

    41. "I will tell Missy the truth—that I am a profligate and cannot marry her; that I have trifled with her


    42. Of course he was not to be trifled with either—in a word, he was a real master!”


    43. All day he slept in the servants' kitchen or trifled with the cooks


    44. The people of America can see, and will judge for themselves; they can readily discern the difference between shadow and substance; they are neither to be deceived or trifled with, especially on subjects of such immense moment to their liberties and happiness


    45. But Katherine held off with a strange new imperiousness that was not to be trifled with


    46. He trifled with our young affections, aroused our enthusiasm and inspired in us the belief that a permanent institution was inevitable, and then—quietly dropped out


    1. During those five days of vacations, Helen didn't stop for a minute criticizing or belittling me over trifles


    2. trifles such as suspensions


    3. However, adopting an attitude that death could come at any time can send a message to your mind to preserve its focus, and let go of trifles


    4. On occasion, Mr Snickerty might append other trifles of conversation to his instruction, regaling Mrs Pilfer, and thus the other occupants of the building, with details of his day, the state of his health, or some scandal or other with which he had become acquainted


    5. " "If you are not found to be curious about trifles" he replied "you shall know everything


    6. Those were trifles which come into every union


    7. “Good lord no! I’m sixty-five and beyond caring about such trifles


    8. Though he wasted little time upon trifles, he was a painstaking workman when it came to the essentials of any given undertaking


    9. " Then said Andrew: "But if it is not wrong to eat the grain, surely the rubbing out between our hands is hardly more work than the chewing of the grain, which you allow; wherefore do you quibble over such trifles?" When Andrew intimated that they were quibblers, they were indignant, and rushing back to where Jesus walked along, talking to Matthew, they protested, saying: "Behold, Teacher, your apostles do that which is unlawful on the Sabbath day; they pluck, rub, and eat the grain


    10. These high-climbing souls deliver themselves from a multitude of the crosscurrent conflicts of the trifles of living, thus becoming free to attain consciousness of the higher currents of spirit concept and celestial communication

    11. Therefore she went to Jesus and said: "Master, do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do all of the serving? Will you not bid her to come and help me?" Jesus answered: "Martha, Martha, why are you always anxious about so many things and troubled by so many trifles? Only one thing is really worth while, and since Mary has chosen this good and needful part, I shall not take it away from her


    12. And if all of this is true, why should you live in fear of the many trifles which come up in your daily lives? I say to you: Fear not; you are of much more value than many sparrows


    13. And then declare we only trifles love


    14. Some orientalists claim that we—Muslim people—concern ourselves with trifles and neglect the significant matters, care not about the core while be greatly interested in the peels so that we spend most of our times in chitchat though time is as precious as gold


    15. They cannot, or will not, perceive that the ceremonial actions in administering the Lord's Supper, about which the clergy disagree, are not mere ornamental trifles, as some suppose


    16. So far from being "trifles," they are the outward and visible expressions of a most mischievous doctrine, which strikes at one of the first principles of the Reformed Church of England


    17. And Victor, Andrew, Slava, Yura, and I were walking in the middle with Sensei chattering about trifles


    18. Her mother-in-law, on the other hand, was rushing like a hurricane, always grumbling and dissatisfied with trifles


    19. Our subject regaled us with amazing details and household trifles of the seventh century


    20. didn’t want to spend any precious time on them even though I had realized that examinations and further studies were not trifles, they were necessary

    21. He took into consideration all trifles of camp arrangement, even a possible storm


    22. “That's all trifles,” Sensei said lighting a cigarette,


    23. The adult brothers become bitter enemies over trifles


    24. I cannot believe—I wish I could--that a child will dislike a parent without cause; the cause may be small things, a series of trifles each of little moment, snubs too often repeated, chills too often applied, stern looks, short words, sarcasms,--and these, as you and I both know, are quite ordinary dullness’s, often daily ingredients of family life; but they sit with a strange and upsetting grace on the poet of Paradise, and I would give anything never to have heard of them


    25. Papa put his newspaper on table and said to mom, ’Nashima, why don’t you look into matter practically? She’s been wasting her time after trifles


    26. One may wait until s/he is dead old for a success with a pain in his or her heart of losing valuable time after trifles


    27. trifles, just concentrate on this a few minutes and see bow needless it is; if you are also in the habit of


    28. Should I tremble at trifles so small, my bones would have been shaken loose long since


    29. The disposition of everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr


    30. But those were all trifles which he had not even begun to consider, and indeed he had no time

    31. He doesn't jeer at things, not because he hasn't the wit, but as though he hadn't time to waste on such trifles


    32. "Eclipse it is called, friend, not cris, the darkening of those two luminaries," said Don Quixote; but Pedro, not troubling himself with trifles, went on with his story, saying, "Also he foretold when the year was going to be one of abundance or estility


    33. "I do not believe," replied Don Quixote, "that such squires were ever on wages, but were dependent on favour; and if I have now mentioned thine in the sealed will I have left at home, it was with a view to what may happen; for as yet I know not how chivalry will turn out in these wretched times of ours, and I do not wish my soul to suffer for trifles in the other world; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that in this there is no condition more hazardous than that of adventurers


    34. "for once an injury has been done thee thou never forgettest it: but know that it is the part of noble and generous hearts not to attach importance to trifles


    35. He was bareheaded, and notwithstanding the swiftness with which he passed as has been described, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance observed and noted all these trifles, and though he made the attempt, he was unable to follow him, for it was not granted to the feebleness of Rocinante to make way over such rough ground, he being, moreover, slow-paced and sluggish by nature


    36. The extreme definiteness with which they stand, now a brilliant white, again yellow, and in some lights red, imposes ideas of durability, of the emergence through the earth of some spiritual energy elsewhere dissipated in elegant trifles


    37. for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with our words; it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress; I glorified her beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding; and she paid me back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of praise; and besides we had a hundred thousand trifles and doings of our neighbours and acquaintances to talk about, and the utmost extent of my boldness was to take, almost by force, one of her fair white hands and carry it to my lips, as well as the closeness of the low grating that separated us allowed me


    38. "That is enough," said Dorothea, "for with friends we must not look too closely into trifles; and whether it be on the shoulder or on the backbone matters little; it is enough if there is a mole, be it where it may, for it is all the same flesh; no doubt my good father hit the truth in every particular, and I have made a lucky hit in commending myself to Don Quixote; for he is the one my father spoke of, as the features of his countenance correspond with those assigned to this knight by that wide fame he has acquired not only in Spain but in all La Mancha; for I had scarcely landed at Osuna when I heard such accounts of his achievements, that at once my heart told me he was the very one I had come in search of


    39. But these were mere trifles, and they assured their mother that the experiment was working finely


    40. That's what I'll do, and not stand haggling over trifles, but wash my hands at once of the whole business, and enjoy my rents like a duke, and let things go their own way

    41. Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn't like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse


    42. She always felt wicked after it, for the pretty things were seldom necessaries, but then they cost so little, it wasn't worth worrying about, so the trifles increased unconsciously, and in the shopping excursions she was no longer a passive looker-on


    43. But the trifles cost more than one would imagine, and when she cast up her accounts at the end of the month the sum total rather scared her


    44. The young lady herself received the news as tidings of great joy, went about in a solemn sort of rapture, and began to sort her colors and pack her pencils that evening, leaving such trifles as clothes, money, and passports to those less absorbed in visions of art than herself


    45. Wasn't it good of him? I like such things, for as Father says, trifles show character


    46. Her readers were not particular about such trifles as grammar, punctuation, and probability, and Mr


    47. She put them in his buttonhole as a peace offering, and he stood a minute looking down at them with a curious expression, for in the Italian part of his nature there was a touch of superstition, and he was just then in that state of half-sweet, half-bitter melancholy, when imaginative young men find significance in trifles and food for romance everywhere


    48. All in a minute various hints and trifles assumed shape and significance in Amy's mind, and told her what her sister never had confided to her


    49. On hearing this, Master Pedro stopped ringing, and said, "Don't look into trifles, Senor Don Quixote, or want to have things up to a pitch of perfection that is out of reach


    50. To these five, as it were capital causes, there may be added some others that may be just and reasonable, and make it a duty to take up arms; but to take them up for trifles and things to laugh at and he amused by rather than offended, looks as though he who did so was altogether wanting in common sense




































    1. trifling with your Mothers affection


    2. can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour must be a very trifling


    3. education is surely an advantage which greatly overbalances this trifling inconveniency


    4. The cheapness and abundance of gold and silver plate would be the sole advantage which the world could derive from the one event; and the dearness and scarcity of those trifling superfluities, the only inconveniency it could suffer from the other


    5. A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures ; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago


    6. The latter species of expense, therefore, especially when directed towards frivolous objects, the little ornaments of dress and furniture, jewels, trinkets, gew-gaws, frequently indicates, not only a trifling, but a base and selfish disposition


    7. But if he has a lease for along term of years, he is altogether independent; and his landlord must not expect from him even the most trifling service, beyond what is either expressly stipulated in the lease, or imposed upon him by the common and known law of the country


    8. It is in a great measure indifferent to him from what place he carries on his trade ; and a very trifling disgust will make him remove his capital, and, together with it, all the industry which it supports, from one country to another


    9. So far Europe has, no doubt, gained a real conveniency, though surely a very trifling one


    10. It is difficult to say which is most trifling, this inconveniency, or the opposite conveniency

    11. The expense of premiums, besides, is very trifling, that of bounties very great


    12. While some dismissed it as a trifling detail, of no real concern to their desired status quo, it was a striking development to this agent


    13. The extreme poverty of the greater part of the persons employed in this expensive, though trifling manufacture, may satisfy us that the price of their work does not, in ordinary cases, exceed the value of their subsistence


    14. The abuses which sometimes creep into the local and provincial administration of a local and provincial revenue, how enormous soever they may appear, are in reality, however, almost always very trifling in comparison of those which commonly take place in the administration and expenditure of the revenue of a great empire


    15. Should the sovereign have the imprudence to appear either to deride, or doubt himself of the most trifling part of their doctrine, or from humanity, attempt to protect those who did either the one or the other, the punctilious honour of a clergy, who have no sort of dependency upon him, is immediately provoked to proscribe him as a profane person, and to employ all the terrors of religion, in order to oblige the people to transfer their allegiance to some more orthodox and obedient prince


    16. The mate spoke a trifling of English from his days aboard a Pacific Coast party boat and understood better, but there was little else to be heard until they both distinctly made out “—a mountain of coke,” repeated several times


    17. Had I known that I was pregnant I wouldn’t have even gotten with you, I’m not trifling like that


    18. But he had forgotten the trifling incident by the time he reached home


    19. 19 think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense


    20. 11 Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and regaining understanding worthy of your age search into the truth of an expedient course? 12 and reverencing my kindly admonition have pity on your own years? 13 For bear in mind that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion

    21. 19 think not eating the unclean then a trifling offense


    22. Let us reckon that it is better to hate the things present since they are trifling and transient and corruptible; and to love those [which are to come] as being good and incorruptible


    23. Not to mention she may even had that trifling Negro in the same bed they conceived their second child in


    24. Jai and Ceder mumbled a lame apology and grabbed a hold of the boat, adding their trifling strength to the haul


    25. " Would this sort of presumption, this defiance of his Father's laws of gravity, be justified in order to protect himself from possible harm or, perchance, to win the confidence of his mistaught and distracted people? But such a course, however gratifying to the sign-seeking Jews, would be, not a revelation of his Father, but a questionable trifling with the established laws of the universe of universes


    26. trifling cost, but this wil not satisfy me at al


    27. And these Jews have not been the only ones to fail in the recognition of high and holy obligations of a divine nature while giving meticulous attention to things of trifling importance to human welfare in both time and eternity


    28. This sort of trifling? Even had you skill


    29. In the Holy Qur’an, God tells us what our Master Luqman “cpth” said to his son admonishing: “… and do not walk trifling on the earth


    30. Doubtless there is a time for all things; but to be always light and trifling is anything but wise

    31. trifling with its genes,


    32. Trifling issues were downplayed and positive points were accentuated


    33. Speak not but what may benefit others or you, avoid trifling conversation


    34. [11] In the play there is a trifling anachronism according towhich we are to believe that in 1643 Quevedo had not yet received thishonor


    35. Her leaving him must have been owing to some trifling misunderstanding


    36. She it was who had used the trifling circumstance of a mislaid sermon-book to take the vicar and Robin into the church at an unaccustomed time, without which sermon-book they would never have met Priscilla in the churchyard and driven her out of it


    37. She ought to have made port early that morning, but inconsequence of sundry trifling, but vexatious delays, she threatened to be fully twenty-four hours late, if not more


    38. “What is it you wish of me? I haven’t time for trifling banter


    39. Convince us, we pray thee, of the worth of our own souls, and the weight of eternity, and the awfulness of that everlasting state which we are standing upon the brink of, and make us diligent and serious in our preparation for it, labouring less for the meat that perisheth, and more for that which endures to eternal life; as those who have set their affections on things above, and not on things that are on the earth, which are trifling and transitory


    40. O what a vain foolish trifling heart have I! when I would do good, even then evil is present with me; good Lord be merciful to me, and pardon the iniquity of my holy things, and let not my manifold defects in my attendance upon thee be laid to my charge, or hinder my profiting by the ordinance

    41. However, ten minutes later, his trifling query adequately dealt with, he left with thanks


    42. He could not envisage days of mutual brooding and sulking that resulted from trifling misunderstandings and raised voices


    43. This is the purpose of this letter though I do not know when you shall read it or when you might open this package with the trifling sum I offer to cover part of the expense I shall cause you


    44. In comparison two murders must seem a trifling matter


    45. It was like the others in external appearance, and even within the difference was trifling between it and those of the poorest of his braves


    46. Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among themselves in trifling amounts through the course of many years


    47. Trifling on, Letchard passes the palaces and terraces, the non-sobriety stalls and the fun and variety halls


    48. Trifling on, Listern passes the palaces and terraces, the non-sobriety stalls and the fun and variety halls


    49. It is giving weight to a trifling impulse


    50. Yet it is on such trifling perversions as these that some authors rest a mighty theory of interminable suffering for sinners of every description










































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "trifle"

    small beer trifle trivia triviality dally play frivol piddle piddle away wanton wanton away flirt dabble fool trinket bit piece fraction bagatelle

    "trifle" definitions

    a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate


    a detail that is considered insignificant


    something of small importance


    waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently


    act frivolously


    consider not very seriously