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triflingly

triflingly adverb: in a trifling manner.

Adverb

triflingly (comparative more triflingly, superlative most triflingly)

  1. In a trifling manner.
    • […] I am apt to think, that a perſon, vvho vvas ready to give more knovvledge than he received, vvould be vvelcome vvherever he came. […] Hovv much more nobly vvould a philoſopher, thus employed, ſpend his time, than […] more triflingly ſedulous in the incatenation of fleas, or the ſculpture of...1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay XVIII”, in Essays. […], London: […] W[illiam] Griffin […], →OCLC, page 151

Forms of triflingly

comparativemore triflingly
superlativemost triflingly

Origin of triflingly

From trifling + -ly.

Questions about triflingly

What does triflingly mean?
Triflingly means in a trifling manner.
What part of speech is triflingly?
Triflingly is an adverb.

Words near triflingly in the dictionary

  1. triflic acid
  2. triflic acids
  3. triflimide
  4. trifling
  5. trifling with
  6. triflingly
  7. triflingness
  8. triflings
  9. triflocin
  10. trifloral
  11. triflorate

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