trifling

Example Sentences

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I tore through the pages, flipping over postcards, glancing at itemized invoices for construction projects, gleefully — and guiltily — poking my way through decades of a single family’s triflings.

From Washington Post

Still, Dr. Huthifa Alissawi, 40, an imam and mosque leader, says such tensions are trifling compared with what his congregation lived through.

From Seattle Times

The judge said on the one hand, what Mr Bramhall did was calculatedly harmless, since no physical damage beyond the 'transient and trifling' was done.

From BBC

Nationwide, Peru has just 2,678 intensive care beds for a population of 32 million — a trifling number even by the low standards of Latin America.

From Seattle Times

Or was he trying to demonstrate that the disease was indeed trifling?

From Washington Post