trifling
adjective
of very little importance; trivial; insignificant.
triflingly
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a word derived from
trifling.
Example Sentences
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For indeed for severer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflingly handled.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
Although it had practically demonstrated that the lesser can contain the greater, the snake was but triflingly increased in girth.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
One of the corner houses comprised a grocer's shop, and this house had been robbed of its just proportion of garden so that the seigneurial garden-plot might be triflingly larger than the others.
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
"Now, now," said one of them, "it becomes not to deal so triflingly with matters of weight."
From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson
It must be practiced only in a serious, reverential mood, and must not be approached triflingly or lightly.
From The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath by William Walker Atkinson
