trifling
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Trifling is not a word one likes to apply to lawmakers, but how else do you describe that kind of loutish behavior?
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2022
Trifling daily events will recall their observations, and experience will confirm, or correct, their juvenile theories.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria
Trifling as had been the occurrence, it had served to rouse her.
From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
Trifling as this recital may appear, the circumstance was highly affecting to a person in my situation.
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
Trifling as these circumstances were, they gave birth at the time to the most extravagant hopes, which filled me with a sort of ecstasy.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. by Moodie, Susanna
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