trifled
Example Sentences
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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
“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
"And take care not to insult her, now. Like Bronden, she is not a woman to be trifled with."
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
