trifling

[US]/'traɪflɪŋ/
[UK]/'traɪflɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. insignificant
v. waste, chat

Example Sentences

It's wrong of you to take the child to task for such trifling offenses.

The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.

Fortunately,the stormy waves caused trifling damage to the boat.

The complicated misanthropy which enabled him, his interpreters declared, to love the public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions.

trifling sum of money

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