All 3 Uses

trifle
in
Washington Square, by Henry James
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She had a vision of this ceremony being performed in some subterranean chapel—subterranean chapels in New York were not frequent, but Mrs. Penniman's imagination was not chilled by trifles—and of the guilty couple—she liked to think of poor Catherine and her suitor as the guilty couple—being shuffled away in a fast-whirling vehicle to some obscure lodging in the suburbs, where she would pay them (in a thick veil) clandestine visits, where they would endure a period of romantic privation, and where ultimately, after she should have been their earthly providence, their intercessor, their advocate, and their medium of communication with the world, they should be reconciled to her brother in an†
Chpt 15 *

trifles = things of small importance
It seems to make you very happy that your daughter's affections have been trifled with.†
Chpt 30 *

trifled with = treated thoughtlessly or without respect
From her own point of view the great facts of her career were that Morris Townsend had trifled with her affection, and that her father had broken its spring.†
Chpt 32

Definitions:

(1) (trifle as in: a trifling matter)
something of small importance; or a small quantity
(2) (trifle with as in: trifle with her affections)
to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
A trifle can refer to a kind of dessert. In classic literature, trifling can be a synonym for small talk.