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• We've gotten bogged down in trifling details.From the entry bog down
• I was misenlightened, no doubt — made the victim, very possibly, of a trifling hoax.1910, Lady's Realm: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 27, page 399. From the entry misenlightened
• She sat in a café, trifling with her coffee spoon.1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, New York: Fawcett, published 1967, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 151. From the entry trifle
• But he was terribly roused too and bound to go on; he wasn’t just trifling but intended something.1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 405. From the entry trifle
• These things seem trifling enough to repeat, but I had throughout the faint feeling that everything was not square.1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey. From the entry square
• It ranged from mere aversion at being gazed at, all the way to the subjective development of real physical illness out of otherwise trifling ailments.2022, Arthur B. Reeve, The Social Gangster. From the entry ophthalmophobia
• I hate sounding simpering, and over a trifling increase of four coppers on a gold, I definitely do not wish to sound simpering.2015, L. E. Modesitt, Jr, Madness in Solidar, →ISBN. From the entry simpering
• Indeed, so complete is their absorption that they have forgotten completely the trifling circumstance that they are no longer man and wife.1922, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, Appraisements and asperities as to some contemporary writers, pages 116–117. From the entry wife-in-law
• Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “Come away, Come away!”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s…. From the entry fairy dust
• “There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ‘idée fixe,’ which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way.1904 April 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure…. From the entry monomania
• Throughout all these trifling actions the natural grace, delicacy, and prim neat-handedness of the woman still waited mechanically on the most useless and aimless of her occupations of the moment.2008, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry neat-handedness

Meaning of trifling

1. adjective Trivial, or of little importance.
2. adjective Frivolous.
3. adjective Good-for-nothing; shady or lazy; scrub.

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How do you use trifling in a sentence?

Trifling is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “You trifling good for nothin’ type of brother.”

What is a short sentence with trifling?

“We've gotten bogged down in trifling details.”

What does trifling mean?

Trifling means trivial, or of little importance.