trifle
/ˈtɹaɪfəl/ verb C2- To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth. · You must not trifle with her affections.
- To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- To inconsequentially toy with something.
- To squander or waste.
He/she/it trifles · Past trifled · Past participle trifled · -ing form trifling
Verb forms
- Base form
- trifle
- He/she/it
- trifles
- Past
- trifled
- Past participle
- trifled
- -ing form
- trifling
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With the exception of these trifling frictions, work in Miss Stacy’s little kingdom went on with regularity and smoothness.
People do not die of little trifling colds.
Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements.
Philips began to express her concern thereupon, he assured her, with much earnest gravity, that it was not of the least importance; that he considered the money as a mere trifle, and begged she would not make herself uneasy.
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