Thesaurus / triflings
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synonyms for triflings
- badinage
- banter
- derision
- drollery
- escapade
- frolic
- horseplay
- jest
- jesting
- joke
- jollification
- jollity
- kidding
- merriment
- mirth
- mockery
- mummery
- nonsense
- pleasantry
- raillery
- teasing
- tomfoolery
- trifling
- practical joke
- flirtation
- toying
- banter
- beguilement
- blandishment
- dalliance
- ogling
- philandering
- pursuit
- seduction
- sport
- trifling
- wantonness
- wooing
- amorous
- lethargy
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- dawdling
- dormancy
- droning
- hibernation
- idleness
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- leisure
- loafing
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- stupor
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- dilly-dallying
- goof-off time
- inoperativeness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- vegetating
- dawdling
- dormancy
- droning
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- dilly-dallying
- goof-off time
- inoperativeness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- vegetating
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
- delay
- idling
- loafing
- playing
- poking
- procrastination
- toying
- trifling
- dabbling
- delaying
- dilly-dallying
- frittering
- frivoling
- loitering
- procrastinating
- dalliance
- flirting
- toying
- amour
- coquetry
- courting
- intrigue
- pickup
- romance
- tease
- teasing
- trifling
- come-hither
- cruising
- romancing
- bluffing
- farce
- frolicking
- jesting
- joshing
- kidding
- roughhouse
- roughhousing
- sham
- skylarking
- spoofing
- teasing
- trifling
- buffoonery
- clownishness
- high jinks
- horseplay
- making light
- mockery
- nonsense
- pretense
- rowdiness
- levity
- flightiness
- flippancy
- flirting
- flummery
- folly
- frippery
- frivolousness
- fun
- gaiety
- game
- giddiness
- jest
- lightheartedness
- lightness
- nonsense
- play
- puerility
- shallowness
- sport
- superficiality
- toying
- trifling
- triviality
- volatility
- whimsicality
- whimsy
- coquetting
- dallying
- fribble
- dawdling
- dormancy
- droning
- hibernation
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stupor
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- dilly-dallying
- goof-off time
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- pottering
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- vegetating
antonyms for triflings
MOST RELEVANT
- activity
- energy
- life
- liveliness
- vigor
- action
- ambition
- busyness
- diligence
- employment
- hustle
- industry
- labor
- occupation
- work
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How to use triflings in a sentence
Of the pedantic triflings of commentators, a controversy among the Portuguese on the works of Camoens is not the least.
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, VOL. 1 (OF 3)ISAAC D'ISRAELIThe solemn triflings of this so-called 'Diet of Deputation' have probably never been equalled elsewhere.
THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIREJAMES BRYCEBut I have not taken up my pen to write either the triflings or the tendernesses of the heart.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 54, NO. 334, AUGUST 1843VARIOUSWith the solemn triflings of the Congress we need not concern ourselves.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I (VOLUMES, 1 AND 2)JOHN HOLLAND ROSEOh, my friend, what have you and I to do with all these curious triflings, which lead men oftener to rebellion than to worship?
ROBERT ELSMEREMRS. HUMPHRY WARDI behold him debasing a great nature to unworthy triflings with man's conscience and a knight's bright faith.
THE LAST OF THE BARONS, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON