nugae
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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All this is very slight, merae nugae; but even if the humour be not of the first water, it will compare well with the humour of epigrams of any age.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
I have an aversion to tame poetry; at best, perhaps the art is the sublimest of the difficiles nugae; to measure or rhyme prose is trifling without being difficult.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.
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