trifle with
Example Sentences
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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
Would you be nervous if you needed to call Sir Ben Kingsley — always “Sir Ben,” you don’t trifle with the title — and convince him to be in your movie?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Adult tyrannosaurs, she adds, probably wouldn’t trifle with such small creatures because they didn’t provide many calories.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
Top the trifle with the zest of the orange leftover from the sweet potatoes.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2021
“Pardon me, sir,” Penelope repeated, rather forcefully, for a Swanburne girl in high dudgeon is nothing to trifle with.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
