trifler
Example Sentences
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Suddenly, it seemed, he was no more than an arch and interminably garrulous trifler.
From Time Magazine Archive
A moment later Dr. Guerrero, cowed trifler with gentlemen's agreements, rose and in a scarcely audible voice withdrew his resolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
No trifler with a magical pair of skis was about to steal a gold medal from Switzerland's hard man, big Peter Muller.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the trifler and the gossip it is merely a few hours' diversion, such as they can manufacture less cleverly and without so "big" names in their own drawing-rooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Courtier and trifler though he was, however, he showed himself so true a poet of nature that his felicities of phrase seem to anticipate the sensuous realism of Keats and his successors.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
