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trifler

NOUN
  1. one who behaves lightly or not seriously

How To Use trifler In A Sentence

  • Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war.
  • I was not an amateur, much less a "trifler" at anything. Archive 2007-12-01
  • Dan recalled his quondam chief's occasional flings at Allen, whom the senator from Fraser had regarded as a spoiled and erratic but innocuous trifler. A Hoosier Chronicle
  • Julian is also a dangerous drunk and a moral trifler, filled with envy and insecurity, a man with no discernible convictions. Books From the Great Depression
  • But her mother expressed an ardent desire to hear my _vivâ voce_ corroboration of this statement, informing me that she was but a poor weak widow-woman, but that, if it should appear that I was merely the giddy trifler of her daughter's young, artless affections, it would be her dolesome duty to summon instantaneously every male able-bodied inmate of her establishment, and request them to inflict deserved corporal chastisement upon my person! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • For if thou shouldst import new learning amongst dullards, thou wilt be thought a useless trifler, void of knowledge; while if thy fame in the city o'ertops that of the pretenders to cunning knowledge, thou wilt win their dislike. Medea
  • A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one, would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. The Essays
  • Sometimes he really is a trifler, but for some things he is very reliable.
  • Ah, you have guessed it, you wanton of the night walls, you trifler in jimai najaiz. The Sky Writer
  • They are triflers with God, with one another and with their own souls.
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