All 9 Uses of
trifle
in
Gone with the Wind
- Has he been trifling with you?†
Chpt 1.2 *
- The black bombazine, with its puffed sleeves and princess lace collar, set off her white skin superbly, but it did make her look a trifle elderly.†
Chpt 1.5
- The colonel would have wired earlier, but Charles, thinking his illness a trifling one, did not wish to have his family worried.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- When he came to call, his complete masculinity made Aunt Pitty's well-bred and ladylike house seem small, pale and a trifle fusty.†
Chpt 2.12
- She did not know if the lack of mail service was the cause, or if he had merely trifled with her affections and then forgotten her.†
Chpt 3.29
- Show it to those who will lend an ear To the tale this trifle will tell Of Liberty, born of patriots' dream, Of a storm-cradled nation that fell.†
Chpt 3.30
- Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.†
Chpt 4.34
- She looked poor white, shiftless, slovenly, trifling.†
Chpt 4.40
- Scarlett trailed after him, somewhat at a loss, a trifle disappointed as at an unexpected anticlimax.†
Chpt 4.47
Definitions:
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(trifle with as in: trifle with her affections) to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect
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(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity