trifling
adjective
of very little importance; trivial; insignificant.
triflingly
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a word derived from
trifling.
Example Sentences
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At first it amused him; then something, he could not have said what, irritated him against this monstrous principle of gliding so triflingly and mockingly through life without ever glancing into it more deeply.
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin
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
"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
Tattle, tat′l, n. trifling talk or chat.—v.i. to talk idly or triflingly: to tell tales or secrets.—n. idle talk.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
