All 4 Uses of
trivial
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."†
Chpt 1
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.†
Chpt 2
- He had been always enthralled by the methods of natural science, but the ordinary subject-matter of that science had seemed to him trivial and of no import.†
Chpt 4 *
- For the most trivial things, Mr. Gray, I assure you.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting