Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently.
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Examples for "trifle "
Examples for "trifle "
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.
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.
1 To trifle away time is indeed to be the greatest of spendthrifts.
2 You succeed in nothing, sir; unstable as water, you trifle away all existence.
3 But I didn't hear the words I moved a trifle away .
4 How am I to bring up my children if I trifle away my time?
5 She dropped her eyes, leaning a trifle away from him.
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Translations for wanton away