trifle
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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
Enter the trifle, a dessert that doesn’t get nearly enough credit for its multipurpose holiday charm.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
“No, no, dear boy. You exaggerate. A minor parable at most. Besides, I fear it is a trifle optimistic.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
As the judge in that case noted, the law is not concerned with insignificant trifles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
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
Such trifles usually have a limited shelf life, but not this one.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2021
I wonder whether the relief agencies will see value in helping us get these trifles.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
“They trifled with us today,” Mr. Trump said Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
“These fittings are not something to be trifled with.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
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
A Syrian in an American prison in 2005—this was not to be trifled with.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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
Whatever the cause, it is not some trifling oversight; this blunder undermined Ziegler’s most important legal rejoinder to the majority.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 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
“I see. And that is where those trifling maladjustments come in which you mentioned awhile ago—steel, hydroponics and so on.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing trifle
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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