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Meanings of trifle in English
Portuguese
desperdiçar Synonyms
Examples for "wanton"
Examples for "wanton"
1
Added to this, the Wallack takes an actual pleasure in wanton destruction.
2
Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy
3
Sometimes I spy her afar off; but the wanton comes and goes.
4
And there will remain only the wanton soul in the virgin body.'
5
Did it make me a wanton to hope he might compliment me?
1
Pirate, my Jack Russell terrier, tended to piddle at the first sign of trouble.
2
We can always take you back to the couch, and you can piddle yourself.
3
Anthony nodded and, suddenly remembering those spew-tits and piddle-warblers of the Bulstrode days, imperceptibly smiled.
4
Is it only piddle draining out of her now?
5
It was as though those piddle-warblers had never existed.
1
Sixty per cent of the water used in farming is needlessly piddled away by careless irrigation.
Usage of trifle in English
1
Never less than clear, but... perhaps... perfectly clear but a trifle sketchy?
2
Poppy is a trifle more particular about the soil it grows in.
3
Sometimes I think he stretches the limits of the law a trifle.
4
The sole of the shoe was a trifle larger than the footprints.
5
Blanche leaned back in the steamer chair and turned a trifle pale.
6
At the same time he is not worse; perhaps a trifle better.
7
The most insignificant trifle affected him; he was a noli me tangere.
8
The window and open door let in a trifle of light, though.
9
The Prince was a trifle cruel; but perhaps his hand trembled, too.
10
Aghast and perhaps a trifle conscience-stricken, I stood stock-still in the sunshine.
11
Smart diners in the immediate neighbourhood appeared to be a trifle shocked.
12
Mr. Cook was a trifle cool in his greeting to the chauffeur.
13
Just for a second the muscles in his throat tightened a trifle.
14
She believed it would be nothing or a trifle; she was mistaken.
15
The young man in the discovery shaft was a trifle disconcerted, apparently.
16
My broken promise is a trifle in view of what caused it.
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Translations for trifle
Trifle through the time
Trifle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare