All 4 Uses of
trifle
in
The House of Mirth
- Perhaps he thought it foolish that she should trouble him about such a trifle.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- In sending her the cheque he had explained that he had made five thousand for her out of Rosedale's "tip," and had put four thousand back in the same venture, as there was the promise of another "big rise"; she understood therefore that he was now speculating with her own money, and that she consequently owed him no more than the gratitude which such a trifling service demanded.†
Chpt 1.8
- At the thought her spirits began to rise: it was characteristic of her that one trifling piece of good fortune should give wings to all her hopes.†
Chpt 1.8
- The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair-pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity