All 18 Uses of
trivial
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- When the old man came, Fyodor Pavlovitch would begin talking about the most trivial matters, and would soon let him go again, sometimes even with a jest.†
Chpt 3 *
- "Is it possible," I cried, clasping my hands, "that such a trivial incident could give rise to such a resolution in you?"†
Chpt 6
- But before three o'clock in the afternoon that something took place to which I alluded at the end of the last book, something so unexpected by all of us and so contrary to the general hope, that, I repeat, this trivial incident has been minutely remembered to this day in our town and all the surrounding neighborhood.†
Chpt 7
- I may add here, for myself personally, that I feel it almost repulsive to recall that event which caused such frivolous agitation and was such a stumbling-block to many, though in reality it was the most natural and trivial matter.†
Chpt 7
- Often he was listless and lazy, at other times he would grow excited, sometimes, apparently, over the most trivial matters.†
Chpt 8
- I would not, however, have dwelt on such trivial and irrelevant details, if this eccentric meeting of the young official with the by no means elderly widow had not subsequently turned out to be the foundation of the whole career of that practical and precise young man.†
Chpt 9
- And if it were not for all these trivial details, we should understand one another in a minute.†
Chpt 9
- "Gentlemen, only let me tell my own story and don't interrupt me with trivial questions and I'll tell you everything in a moment," said Mitya excitedly.†
Chpt 9
- "And enough of those trivial questions, gentlemen, all those tricky questions!" cried Mitya enthusiastically.†
Chpt 9
- "We quite understand that you made that statement just now through exasperation with us and the questions we put to you, which you consider trivial, though they are, in fact, essential," the prosecutor remarked dryly in reply.†
Chpt 9
- "It's so trivial, so ordinary."†
Chpt 10
- "The most stupid, trivial affair, they made a mountain of a molehill as they always do," Kolya began carelessly.†
Chpt 10
- "Oh, that's all nonsense about Troy, a trivial matter.†
Chpt 10
- If he dared to think anything like that Kolya would— "I regard the question as quite a trivial one," he rapped out again, proudly.†
Chpt 10
- He is simply a devil—a paltry, trivial devil.†
Chpt 11
- But I need not recall the painful scene, though I will make one or two comments, selecting such trivial ones as might not be obvious at first sight to every one, and so may be overlooked.†
Chpt 12
- The prisoner was positively offended, he thought it almost insulting to ask him such a trivial question, and would you believe it, his resentment was genuine!†
Chpt 12
- That impresses men's minds, and to such a degree that the very triviality and incompleteness of the evidence becomes less trivial and less incomplete even to an unprejudiced mind.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting