trifle

The game badly misses Alcaraz—“Tennis needs him,” Sinner said Sunday—but no tennis player should trifle with a bad wrist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Still, it is the frolicsome rapport between the two stars that gives this comic trifle of a play its allure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

This tour has ended like all the others – injuries, collapses in form and a selection trifle.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026

Rachel’s trifle is “Friends” legend in large part because Joey actually likes it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

“As aquatic spectacles go, I am a trifle underwhelmed by your lake. Is this where the swans are?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

A rewatch lends itself to the trifles peppered throughout Wineman’s clever script, but there’s nothing quite like the first time seeing his film transform from its humble beginnings to its jaw-dropping final act.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

She’s interested in adding regular savories such as pasties and sausage rolls, and maybe bringing new treats such as trifles or Eton Messes to her roster.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

Other, seemingly familiar terms — romper room, sherry trifles — have their innocence stripped from them to reveal a second, more sinister meaning.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022

The Ray Anthony Orchestra was a prolific ensemble, releasing countless dance singles in the early 1950s, including “The Hokey Pokey” and “The Bunny Hop” — swinging trifles that captured a national audience almost immediately.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

However, no one had pushed him and there was no point in bickering over trifles.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Still, it “proves what the Chinese and everyone else are saying—these are capable things and they are not to be trifled with,” said Brendan Mulvaney, director of the China Aerospace Studies Institute, a U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Her aim is to silence the messenger and leave the impression that she isn’t to be trifled with by the media, shades of Margaret Thatcher.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

From eating holes in people's brains to generating nasty tumors to putting folks in comas, some fungi are not to be trifled with.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023

Sleep is not to be trifled with; there is nothing low-stakes about it.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023

I’d taught Little Arliss and Jumper that I wasn’t to be trifled with.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

But it’s the songs that talk about brushing off stifling, trifling men, including the title track and “What Have You Done For Me Lately,” that have the most staying power.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026

Before IMG and ProServ, athletes typically got trifling rewards for endorsing products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Frankly, the more trifling the crime, the better this franchise’s comedy aspirations would work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

To state the obvious, the big picture is all this is trifling and academic because the government won by a million miles, with a majority of 120.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends?

From "Grendel" by John Gardner