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Sentence count:126+6Posted:2016-10-02Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: dallyfrivolpiddlepiddle awayplaysmall beertechnicalitytriviatrivialitywantonwanton awaySimilar words: rifledriftfleefleetclarifyterrificbaffledflexibleMeaning: ['traɪfl]  n. 1. sponge cake spread with jam and soaked in wine; served with a custard sauce 2. a detail that is considered insignificant 3. something of small importance. v. 1. waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently 2. act frivolously 3. consider not very seriously. 
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31. I was in no mood to trifle.
32. We are swamped with trifle, bombarded with toasts and the General's after-dinner speech.
33. Ferry captains have no time to trifle with inept sailors blocking the channel.
34. She turned away to get something out of the fridge, which turned out to be a glass bowl full of trifle.
35. I must confess I felt a trifle guilty about your lonely watch: nothing to report? I thought as much.
36. That was a trifle unexpected, but Rossmayne was a man of honour and good sense.
37. While I did not begrudge the President his due recognition, this was a trifle fulsome.
38. In her day cream was 1s. per pint and she estimated the total cost of her trifle at 5s. 6d.
39. The piano sound is good, if a trifle harsh of tone in places.
40. Good morning, Watson! I must confess I felt a trifle guilty about your lonely watch: nothing to report?
41. But such a trifle was not worthy of being brought by such a gentleman as you seem to be.
42. At first, the difficulty he had in opening the door of his room seemed no more than an irritating trifle.
43. She is a trifle odd; you will find out more about that.
44. Slipped in as if it is a mere trifle, a quite exorbitant price!
45. Therese said Miss Grimsilk was a very nice lady who is at present a trifle unhappy.
46. For the first five months of his life, Christopher was happy, well-adjusted and a trifle fat.
47. The waiters' spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley.
48. Sometimes the 1949 recording is a trifle overwhelmed, but by and large it absorbs the heavy demands with reasonable fidelity.
49. The rest of the costumes do look a trifle ... stale.
50. A wagon wheel was no trifle; neither was a stove.
51. He looked at me as though I were very young and possibly a trifle slow.
52. I must admit I was getting a trifle worried but then I met them.
53. How dare you trifle with me, he might have said; and worse, why should I care?
54. She halted, left a trifle breathless as usual by the sight of him in a dress suit.
55. Have some trifle, Bina - I can see the glint in your eyes.
56. Buying a house is no trifle for middle class families.
57. She garnished her built-up Trifle with strips of bright currant jelly, crystallised sweetmeats or flowers.
58. A tall man of military bearing, who I fancied looked a trifle uncomfortable in civilian clothes[sentencedict.com], stood on the threshold.
59. The wine and lemon-flavoured cream whip or syllabub which had crowned the Trifle had begun to disappear.
60. Don't trifle with me.
More similar words: rifledriftfleefleetclarifyterrificbaffledflexiblereflectionflexibilityclarificationesterificationtrimtripstriptricktribetrialstringstrikestricttribalget rid oftriggerstrikingnutrientdistrictdoctrinestrictlyelectric
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