Sample Sentences for
trivial
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    A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.  (source)
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    If he'd known about it, crossing the Teklanika to safety would have been a trivial matter.†  (source)
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    The game was trivial compared to the whole world.†  (source)
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    The argument was based on something so trivial it didn't seem worth wasting a single word on it.†  (source)
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    In some way, not the deepest nor yet trivially, I was gone on her and as far as I was allowed gave her a real embrace that she returned, licking my ear and praising and promising me; she already called me husband.†  (source)
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    But you must admit, these are nontrivial issues.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nontrivial means not and reverses the meaning of trivial. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going without it for a year am still in the land of the living; and I am glad to escape the trivialness of carrying a bottleful in my pocket, which would sometimes pop and discharge its contents to my discomfiture.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The letter opened with the normal trivial catching-up jokes, but it soon became more serious.†  (source)
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    LIZA [trivially] Of course: that is his profession.†  (source)
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    Our team sits down every day to open these emphatically nontrivial missives, and we feel a great responsibility when we review them.†  (source)
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    It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations.†  (source)
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    Now here he was, waving aside my sympathy as though that had been an incident too trivial to recall.†  (source)
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    There were few good friends among the grown people, and they were not poor enough for the other sort of intimate acquaintance, but everyone nodded and spoke, and even might talk short times, trivially, and at the two extremes of the general or the particular, and ordinarily nextdoor neighbors talked quite a bit when they happened to run into each other, and never paid calls.†  (source)
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