How To Use Trifler In A Sentence
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Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war.
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I was not an amateur, much less a "trifler" at anything.
Archive 2007-12-01
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Sometimes he really is a trifler, but for some things he is very reliable.
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Ah, you have guessed it, you wanton of the night walls, you trifler in jimai najaiz.
The Sky Writer
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They are triflers with God, with one another and with their own souls.
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Trifler, wilt thou sing till June?
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Our suspicion that his was not a room for triflers was confirmed by the wine list, which had the heft of a big-city phone book.
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You are not the callous trifler you pretend to be.
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And is it, she thought, for a trifler such as this, so unmeaning, so unfeeling, I have risked my whole of hope and happiness?
Camilla
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He is not an insignificant trifler, whose object it is to raise a laugh at his own expense, or that of any other.
Count Robert of Paris
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No, as such she has seen I could resist her; nor yet the light trifler of a spring or two, neglected when no longer a novelty; no, no! — it is a companion for ever, it is a solace for every care, it is a bosom friend through every period of life that I seek in Miss Beverley!
Cecilia
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared!
