trivialize
verb (used with object)
to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
had trivialized
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past perfectof trivialize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Travers felt that Disney had trivialized her book, transforming it into a cloying musical.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
In March this year, after the couple felt Mexican police had trivialized the threats and Jeniffer discovered she was pregnant, they decided to return to the U.S.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
Steve Sadow told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury in closing arguments that Howard K. Stern loved her and prosecutors had trivialized the chronic pain she suffered for more seven years.
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2010
In a speech last month, he charged that his colleagues had "trivialized" the rights of criminals by regarding those rights as mere technicalities.
From Time Magazine Archive
She said I had trivialized the issue and if I thought it was outdated I was living with my head in the sand.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
