trifle with
Example Sentences
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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
“We can hope that the sanctions will underscore for the County, Attorney Carroll, and other observers that they trifle with judicial orders and time-honored rules and norms in litigation at their peril,” Wecht wrote.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023
“The stakes were far, far too high for them to trifle with settling scores with me or any other civilian,” he said.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2019
The ultra-friendly Hypocrites are so good at loosening up a room with their atmospherics that you may wonder: why bother with “The Mikado”? Why trifle with “Pirates”?
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2016
When he was laid out, he asked me to come and look at the dead and to see how dreadful it was to trifle with death.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
