All 8 Uses

trivial
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Black Boy
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Every happening in the neighborhood, no matter how trivial, became my business.†
Chpt 1.1 *

trivial = unimportant
I became forgetful, concentrating too much upon trivial tasks.†
Chpt 1.10
How, how, how could I get my hands on more money before I was caught and sent to jail for some trivial misdemeanor?†
Chpt 1.10
Memphis was not a small town like Jackson; it was urban and I felt that no one would hold the trivial trouble I had had in Jackson against me.†
Chpt 1.12
Hence, our daily lives were so bound upwith trivial objectives that to capitulate when challenged was tantamount to surrendering the right to life itself.†
Chpt 1.12
And had I not been born in the South, her trivial act would have been as unnoticed by me as it was by her.†
Chpt 2.15
All my life I had done nothing but feel and cultivate my feelings; all their lives they had done nothing but strive for petty goals, the trivial material prizes of American life.†
Chpt 2.15
He talked of trivial things in lofty tones.†
Chpt 2.19

Definitions:

(1) (trivial)
of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)