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
Whatever the cause, it is not some trifling oversight; this blunder undermined Ziegler’s most important legal rejoinder to the majority.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2025
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
That old trifling Cholly been out of jail two whole days and ain’t been here yet to see if his own child was ’live or dead.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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