All 11 Uses
trifle
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
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- They read those playful trifles in the solidest terms, and decided without hesitancy that if there had ever been any doubt that Dave Wilson was a pudd'nhead—which there hadn't—this revelation removed that doubt for good and all.†
Chpt 5trifles = things of small importance
- Her income was only sufficient for the family support, and she needed the lodging money for trifling luxuries.†
Chpt 5
- Wilson showed a trifle of irritation when he replied...
Chpt 15 *trifle = a small amount
- Luigi was incensed, and asked how it could be that the old gentleman, who was by no means dull-witted, held his trifling nephew's evidence in inferences to be of more value than Wilson's.†
Chpt 19
- Pudd'nhead Wilson had a trifle of money when he arrived, and he bought a small house on the extreme western verge of the town.†
Chpt 2
- On frosty nights the humane Negro prowler would warm the end of the plank and put it up under the cold claws of chickens roosting in a tree; a drowsy hen would step on to the comfortable board, softly clucking her gratitude, and the prowler would dump her into his bag, and later into his stomach, perfectly sure that in taking this trifle from the man who daily robbed him of an inestimable treasure—his liberty—he was not committing any sin that God would remember against him in the Last Great Day.†
Chpt 2
- That thought inspired her to add another castle to her dream: maybe he would give her a trifle now and then—maybe a dollar, once a month, say; any little thing like that would help, oh, ever so much.†
Chpt 8
- When he began his talk he hoped to be able to gall them a little and get a trifle of malicious entertainment out of it.†
Chpt 15
- Tom forged a bill of sale and sold his mother to an Arkansas cotton planter for a trifle over six hundred dollars.†
Chpt 16
- By the time he had snatched a trifle of breakfast, it was nine o'clock, and the court was ready to begin its sitting.†
Chpt 21
- Tom was altering his position every few minutes now, but none of his changes brought repose nor any small trifle of comfort.†
Chpt 21
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.