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

One he showed me depicted a swarm of stars with a trifling flare that I had to put close to my face to see.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson