trifled

Verb

trifle (third-person singular simple present trifles, present participle trifling, simple past and past participle trifled)

1. (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
   • You must not trifle with her affections.
2. (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
   • […] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […]1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter 27, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
3. (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
   • Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […]1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   fiddle

4. (transitive) To squander or waste.
   • We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   fritter, wanton

5. (obsolete, transitive) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.
   • […] but this sore night / Hath trifled former knowings.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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