All 6 Uses
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Going After Cacciato
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- In one fuzzed motion he flung himself down and away, rolling, covering his skull, mouth open, yelping a trivial little yelp.†
Chpt 1 *trivial = unimportant
- The routinization of the war, which helped make it tolerable, included even trivial things—what to talk about and when, the times to rest and the times to march and the times to keep the guard, when to tell jokes and when not to, the order of the march, when to send out ambushes and when to fake them.†
Chpt 4
- Trivial, beside the point.†
Chpt 19
- He pretended that when he opened his eyes his father would be there by the campfire and, father and son, they would begin to talk softly about whatever came to mind, minor things, trivial things, and then roll into their sleeping bags.†
Chpt 31
- After the war: buy a car, travel, visit Disneyland, screw everything in sight, spend a year in the woods, never worry about trivial stuff, enjoy life, live.†
Chpt 40
- Odd, because what he remembered was so trivial, so obvious and corny, that to speak of it was embarrassing.†
Chpt 42
Definitions:
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(1)
(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)