Words similar to trifle
Example sentences for: trifle
How can you use “trifle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Then she turned her argument upside down, praising a trifle called A Summer Story precisely because of its cynical, empty decorativeness.
lang's great quality is that she can pull off even the most anachronistic trifle without patronizing it.
Those that are on the ropes for this revision, include fuck-plug a contraceptive diaphragm, with a single example from a college student in 1984, a term not subsequently found despite wide questioning and extensive database searching; fuck 5.b. to trifle or interfere with (that is, the usual sense of fuck with , but without the with), found in a single example from a movie; and friggin in the rigging , a nautical expression for loafing on duty, which is too uninteresting a figurative sense even if it does have some currency beyond the single oral example we have found.
I'm afraid that, out here, the Brooklyn Museum story is a trifle parish pump; although, as an ex-Manhattanite, I realize the five boroughs are one hell of a parish.
In Stockholm there is a chain of fast-food restaurants where you can get, along with a fairly high risk of heartburn, what must rank as the ultimate in culinary oxymorons: a hamburger called a Mini Big . If that sounds a trifle too indecisive, you may choose from such offerings as a Cheeseburgare , a Baconburgare , a Big Dream , or something called a Big Clock . All these names are English, more or less.