trifling

Example Sentences

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Before IMG and ProServ, athletes typically got trifling rewards for endorsing products.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Frankly, the more trifling the crime, the better this franchise’s comedy aspirations would work.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 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

This cavalier treatment of tragic circumstances is of a piece with the entire musical’s approach to the hardships Annie endures—they’re treated as trifling in the face of her new life in the Warbucks mansion.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2024

“Well, he run off with that trifling Peggy—from Elyria. You know.”

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison