trifling
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Trifling is not a word one likes to apply to lawmakers, but how else do you describe that kind of loutish behavior?
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2022
Trifling as these circumstances were, they gave birth at the time to the most extravagant hopes, which filled me with a sort of ecstasy.
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. by Moodie, Susanna
Trifling as this instance may seem, there is great force in its being solitary, and apparently contradictory to what they both before affirmed in general.
From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel
Trifling as such things were, they brought a feeling akin to comfort.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John
The water-drop wears out the stone; and cares Trifling, if ceaseless, form an aggregate, Whose burden weighs the buoyant heart to earth.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
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