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trifling matter

NOUN
inconsiderableness
Synonyms
WEAK
immateriality inconsequence inconsequentiality indifference meanness molehill negligibility negligibleness nothingness paltriness smallness triviality trivialness worthlessness
NOUN
insignificance
Synonyms
STRONG
immateriality inconsequence indifference meanness molehill nothingness paltriness pettiness smallness triviality worthlessness
WEAK
inconsequentiality negligibility

Example Sentences

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"Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking."

From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2023

For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

Toni knew that for a black girl to love herself was no trifling matter.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

All that is left, now, is the trifling matter of some soccer matches.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2018

It is not a trifling matter for the parents to converse together an hour at evening and there plan as to the future home instruction of their young.

From Farm Boys and Girls by McKeever, William Arch