All 24 Uses of
trifle
in
David Copperfield
- There must be no trifling with HER affections, poor dear.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1) *
- If I had a good place, and was treated well here, I should beg acceptance of a trifle, instead of taking of it.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- It was so precious to me that I look back on these trifles, now, with an aching heart.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2) *
- There are still a few trifles that we could part with.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 2)
- I cannot trifle, or be trifled with.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- I cannot trifle, or be trifled with.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- She had a little basket-trifle hanging at her side, with keys in it; and she looked as staid and as discreet a housekeeper as the old house could have.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- 'I have got a trifle of money somewhere about me, my dear,' said Mr. Barkis, 'but I'm a little tired.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- Some people trifled with her as a mere oddity, he said; but she was as shrewdly and sharply observant as anyone he knew, and as long-headed as she was short-armed.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- 'From many things — trifles in themselves, but they do not seem to me to be so, when they are put together.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- The inhabitants appeared to have a propensity to throw any little trifles they were not in want of, into the road: which not only made it rank and sloppy, but untidy too, on account of the cabbage-leaves.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling; but I thought him observant of Traddles, too, who was looking at the fire.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- It was not a trifling business to get the great umbrella up, and properly balanced in her grasp; but at last I successfully accomplished this, and saw it go bobbing down the street through the rain, without the least appearance of having anybody underneath it, except when a heavier fall than usual from some over-charged water-spout sent it toppling over, on one side, and discovered Miss Mowcher struggling violently to get it right.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- On one side of this line,' said Mr. Micawber, representing it on the desk with the office ruler, 'is the whole range of the human intellect, with a trifling exception; on the other, IS that exception; that is to say, the affairs of Messrs Wickfield and Heep, with all belonging and appertaining thereunto.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2)
- They were dressed alike, but this sister wore her dress with a more youthful air than the other; and perhaps had a trifle more frill, or tucker, or brooch, or bracelet, or some little thing of that kind, which made her look more lively.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2)
- Since then, I have taken heart to write a good many trifling pieces.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- She was bright and cheerful in the old childish way, loved me dearly, and was happy with her old trifles.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- …though Jip never responded; listened, day after day, to the guitar, though I am afraid she had no taste for music; never attacked the Incapables, though the temptation must have been severe; went wonderful distances on foot to purchase, as surprises, any trifles that she found out Dora wanted; and never came in by the garden, and missed her from the room, but she would call out, at the foot of the stairs, in a voice that sounded cheerfully all over the house: 'Where's Little Blossom?'†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- I think of every little trifle between me and Dora, and feel the truth, that trifles make the sum of life.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)
- I think of every little trifle between me and Dora, and feel the truth, that trifles make the sum of life.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)
- 'I descended — as I might have known I should, but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship — into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with, as the inconstant humour took him.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 2)
- 'I descended — as I might have known I should, but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship — into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with, as the inconstant humour took him.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- It is merely crossing,' said Mr. Micawber, trifling with his eye-glass, 'merely crossing.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- Even this,' showing me the basket-trifle, full of keys, still hanging at her side, 'seems to jingle a kind of old tune!'†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (trifle with as in: trifle with her affections) to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect
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(2) (trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity