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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 letter opened with the normal trivial catching-up jokes, but it soon became more serious.†  (source)
    trivial = unimportant
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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)
    trivially = in an unimportant manner
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    But you must admit, these are nontrivial issues.†  (source)
    nontrivial = important
    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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    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)
    trivialness = the quality of being unimportant
    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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    She made a point of writing as if everything were normal, sharing the trivial news of home.†  (source)
    trivial = unimportant
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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)
    trivially = in an unimportant manner
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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)
    nontrivial = important
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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)
    trivialness = the quality of being unimportant
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    How could I be expected to remember a trivial detail like that, I'd say, at a time like this?†  (source)
    trivial = unimportant
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    LIZA [trivially] Of course: that is his profession.†  (source)
    trivially = in an unimportant manner
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