All 10 Uses
trifle
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The Prince and The Pauper
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- He walked up and down the floor, filled with nameless fears, listening, starting at every trifling sound.†
Chpt 5 *
- Kiss me once again, and go to thy trifles and amusements; for my malady distresseth me.†
Chpt 5trifles = things of small importance
- Sink the title thou hast uttered—'tis treason; we be bad men in some few trifling ways, but none among us is so base as to be traitor to his King; we be loving and loyal hearts, in that regard.†
Chpt 17
- Ah, it seems too good to be true, it IS too good to be true—I charge thee, have pity, do not trifle with me!†
Chpt 25 *trifle with = treat thoughtlessly or without respect
- The cells were all crowded; so the two friends were chained in a large room where persons charged with trifling offences were commonly kept.†
Chpt 27
- Little things, trifles, slip out of one's ken, and one does not think it matter for surprise; but how so bulky a thing as the Seal of England can vanish away and no man be able to get track of it again—a massy golden disk—" Tom Canty, with beaming eyes, sprang forward and shouted— "Hold, that is enough!†
Chpt 32trifles = things of small importance
- Death for Trifling Larcenies.†
Chpt notes
- As the young girls passed him, he said in a low voice— "I pray ye, ladies, seem not to observe his humours, nor show surprise when his memory doth lapse—it will grieve you to note how it doth stick at every trifle."†
Chpt 6
- —not but that his port and speech are princely still, but that they DIFFER, in one unweighty trifle or another, from what his custom was aforetime.†
Chpt 6
- By advantage taken of one in fault, in dire peril, and at thy mercy, thou hast seized goods worth above thirteenpence ha'penny, paying but a trifle for the same; and this, in the eye of the law, is constructive barratry, misprision of treason, malfeasance in office, ad hominem expurgatis in statu quo—and the penalty is death by the halter, without ransom, commutation, or benefit of clergy.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity
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(2)
(trifle with as in: trifle with her affections) to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect
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(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.