The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
Something of small importance.
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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 Ivy Leaguers debate the finer points of sports trivia with high-school dropouts.
2 Not to test Trump's knowledge of terms and trivia , but his judgment.
3 So I'm not sure that the public are in love with trivia .
4 The occupants were cloistered in a windowless conference room arguing administrative trivia .
5 Then they made trivia games truly interactive with You Don't Know Jack.
1 Mr Seymour said their application for residency was rejected on a technicality .
2 You're just thinking in terms of pure technicality or in economic terms.
3 In the end the hold-up may simply be down to a technicality .
4 But that parliamentary technicality was overwhelmed by the surge of political indignation.
5 In Stephanie and WER's view, marriage was a technicality , not an event.
1 But Bertie Ahern's difficulties are small beer by comparison with Tony Blair's.
2 His supper consists of an egg and a draught of small beer .
3 Every morning a bit of dry bread and some bad small beer .
4 There are two firkins of small beer and a tun of canary.
5 Malt liquors are divided into small beer , strong beer, ale, and porter.
1 But space was a triviality in a place that didn't truly exist.
2 We all understand the triviality as well as the importance of music.
3 But the triviality died on her lips as the truth had died.
4 The sound reduced everything else that was on their minds to triviality .
5 No sport links indignation and triviality to a greater degree than golf.
6 She wondered how a man like Mr. Casaubon would support such triviality .
7 Tragic triviality - the problem of how to cross a brook with a maid!
8 Ultimately insignificant it may be, but football remains a glorious triviality .
9 The first thing that strikes one in such definitions is their unutterable triviality .
10 Curiously enough, the very triviality of the phenomenon was beginning to impress George.
11 Social position as represented by the hectic triviality of the last few days?
12 The apparent triviality of his occupation, and his intentness upon it, amused Marian.
13 The unforeseeable had now occurred, something which reduced all else to mere triviality .
14 The dapper little man jerked his head as over a triviality .
15 All these plays preaching about virtue disgusted them by their triviality .
16 He had never renounced anything, and so his life was a mere triviality .
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