All 18 Uses of
trifle
in
Franny and Zooey
- He reflected, looking a trifle morose.†
Chpt 1.1
- She arched her back a trifle, and, with her mouth a trifle open, she put her hand on top of her head.†
Chpt 1.2
- She arched her back a trifle, and, with her mouth a trifle open, she put her hand on top of her head.†
Chpt 1.2
- Franny suddenly sat up a trifle straighter in her seat, self-consciously.†
Chpt 1.2
- She weaved a trifle, then fainted, collapsing to the floor.†
Chpt 1.2
- He sat a trifle closer to her and bent down and kissed her, briefly.†
Chpt 1.2
- ZOOEY THE facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.†
Chpt 2.1
- The response from behind the shower curtain was a trifle delayed but delighted.†
Chpt 2.2
- "And I mean all of you," she said, and abruptly straightened her posture a trifle.†
Chpt 2.2
- She stared at him for a moment, and then, slowly, a new look gathered in her eyes—resourceful, crafty, and a trifle desperate.†
Chpt 2.2
- Zooey put a hand on each side of the washbowl and leaned his chest forward a trifle, his eyes on the general background of enamel.†
Chpt 2.2
- But she was insulted, and a trifle hurt.†
Chpt 2.2
- More than a trifle grimly, he brought his cigar to his mouth and dragged on it, but it had gone out.†
Chpt 2.3
- "Always the heavy," Zooey said, a trifle too matter-of-factly.†
Chpt 2.3
- The lettering was minute, but jet-black and passionately legible, if just a trifle fancy in spots, and without blots or erasures.†
Chpt 2.4
- a trifle dizzy
Chpt 2.4 *trifle = little bit
- It was exactly the kind of pause—just a trifle rich with seniority of years—that had often tried the patience of both Franny and the vif tuoso at the other end of the phone when they were small children.†
Chpt 2.4
- Franny took advantage of the slight pause that followed to straighten her back a trifle, as though, for some reason, good posture, or better posture, might come in handy at any moment.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
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(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity