How To Use Trivial In A Sentence

You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world. Flash For Freedom
Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
I followed the daily activities of a trivial little person. Somewhere East of Life
This is unsatisfying in many respects, for, as should be clear at this point, we often need to nontrivially reason about theories which Impossible Worlds
Any book that is written for the public, as this one is, needs to bring across that maturity and complexity of thinking in such a way that it is digestible by nonspecialists, without trivializing the subject.

In old persons intracapsular fracture may be caused by such a trivial thing as turning in bed, and even a sudden twist of the ankle has been sufficient to produce this injury. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
He would call about something trivial in the middle of the night. The Sun
Let us not trivialise this by saying that it is because of parapsychology or telepathy.
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
Our ability to stress over trivial cultural issues while ignoring the extermination of the environment will make medieval peasants believing in miracles seem as reasonable as Einstein.
A trivial reason explaining how both step sizes can be the same, is that the labeled calmodulin is bound to the catalytic domain.
I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves.
Shipping Girl Genius (and Other Trivial Matters) "Although strong drink is a mocker, I find that I need to be mocked. Archive 2009-01-01
What on earth can such a trivial thing matter? Times, Sunday Times
But they are too trivial even to be called antipopes.
We fell out over a trivial question
You medicalise trivial ailments and, worse, bore others with them. Times, Sunday Times
Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream.
His problems seemed trivial by comparison.
A repetitive set-top game called Search for the Spear of Destiny requires a beginner's level of dexterity, and delivers trivial lost-civilization factoids as reward cookies for successful play.
But the notion of a film or TV show based on a Facebook status update is not necessarily a trivial or inane one.
Hillary Clinton and John Edwards caught making comments about getting rid of other candidates in debate the ones who quote, "trivialize" debates. CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2007
They may seem trivial to you, but think of it this way - if you could poll half a million people world wide each day as to what they thought the most important issue of the day was, wouldn't that be useful?
The law is not mindful of small things or trivial things.
Since the illness, well in the last few weeks really, he's lost it over trivial stupid things.
Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others. Kazakh upland
Despotic as he was and became, Bonaparte always called theother Consuls about him before proceeding with the most trivial measure. The Psychology of Revolution
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.
How dare this person measure the work of a pastor in such trivial terms? Christianity Today
Yet is there not something trivial and demeaning about insisting that the'real' meaning of ancient texts is the path to peace and common understanding? Times, Sunday Times
It is a sadly inverted and trivialized world in which all that is unimportant becomes important and all that is important becomes unimportant.
Sometimes he presents her as a vain and trivial woman, sometimes as merely ignorant and fearful.
The haecceity or thisness of an object, the property of being (identical to) that very object, provides a trivial example of an individual essence for each object. Essential vs. Accidental Properties
The most careless and trivial movements were capable of transmitting the rudest and most insolent messages.
But the restrictions on individual licence which are due to respect for a known and friendly power allied to man, however trivial and absurd they may appear to us in their details, contain within them germinant principles of social progress and moral order. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep, dark paradoxes.
The battles about drivers or airline passengers using mobiles are not trivial.
The diamond mountains now orbiting among the satellites of Jupiter may open up the entire Solar System; how trivial, by comparison, appear all the ancient uses of the quartic-crystallized form of carbon! 2061 Odyssey Three
B.when measured, unless the quantum state is an eigenstate of the measured observable A, the system does not possess any categorical property corresponding to A's having a specific value in the set B. Putnam seems to assume that a realist interpretation of (*) should consist in assigning to A some unknown value within B. for which quantum mechanics yields a non-trivial probability. Puppet X: 1
It proclaims the burdens of pollution control regulation, displaying industry as suffocating under costly yet trivial constraints.
How has it come about that we are prepared to describe a serious physical mutilation as a trivial adjustment?
He could remember every trivial incident in great detail.
Then there are actors who are haunted by what they perceive as the trivial and inconsequential nature of their work.
For the first time since Wednesday, I'm actually feeling nontrivially better. LinuxChix aggregator
So with no further ado, here are two variations on simple (but not trivial) meditation.
He gives it a few lines in the context, and almost as an example of petty wrangling over trivial matters. Christianity Today
Teasing is awesome, and it must be done in the name of liberating all hearts to feel the less trivial, more outrageous love. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
We should not trivialise it just because I am impersonating someone.
Playing Cranium feels like playing charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name That Tune and hangman all at once.
He could remember every trivial incident in great detail.
He still has a Quaker-like faith that if only people could hear the truth, untainted by spin, untrivialised by the media, they would begin to see the light.
Not to trivialize his work, but one of the reasons I believe his work is so popular is the aphoristic style of his writing.
Curious though it sounds, from that vaguely trivial dispute grew a feud that has lasted to this day. Times, Sunday Times
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
It does not matter that the offences are trivial or made under the immunity perhaps conferred by the Senate in the course of an inquiry.
I have often been accused of thinking too much, of over-analyzing trivialities.
It's people like Prather who trivialize the world, turning a buck on whatever rare loveliness they can defile in the name of commerce. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
The cost to Greece of default is relatively trivial compared to the cost to its creditors, mostly European banks uneager to take large write-downs. Everything's Fine With Greece, Just Ignore Some Facts
And while the occasional privacy violation seems trivial, perhaps even silly to some readers, these abuses really do add up over time.
Hurley's show was a brilliant reflection of Kiwi culture and portrayal of the triviality of politics and the public's attitude towards them.
This may seem trivial compared with the high drama of 'saving the world'; but if this analysis is correct, our underlying problem is being 'dissociated', and we ought to be asking constantly how we restore a sense of association with the material place and time and climate we inhabit and are part of. Act local as well as national urges Archbishop
The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
nontrivial" in the sense that it wasn't easy to accomplish. ProHipHop: Hip Hop Business
Especially something as trivial as incorrect dress (assuming it’s not something like forgetting to put your trousers on!); this is classic Army RSM behaviour for getting new rookies under the thumb; nitpick. on January 30, 2007 at 11: 37 am | Reply Teeth grinder from the South Memory Is The Guardian Of Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Now we argue most days over trivial things. The Sun
You should hear how men howl at this finding: What a trivial excuse, how silly.
Yeah, you're a busy man and you sure as hell don't have time for such triviality as shaving.
They tend to amble along in the beginning, bogged down in trivialities.
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
Work is common but great, trivial and difficult, difficult and difficult.
Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances. The French Immortals Series — Complete
Mr Madhi escaped from Iran in February 2008 after being sentenced to 73 years in jail for what he described as a trivial charge. Latest Articles
Claim everything for the Bible as lawbook and you end up claiming nothing, Hooker says; you end up trivialising creation and redemption alike. The Richard Hooker Lecture: Richard Hooker (c1554-1600): The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Revisited The Temple Church, London
If it rained, we sat around playing backgammon and Trivial Pursuit and trying to kill time.
The doctrines which the sages had associated with the idea of Serapis, debased and degraded by the most contemptible trivialities; lost all their worth and dignity; and after the great Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
(Although perhaps I shouldn't trivialize it quite so much by calling it "blather"; it's precisely this NYT-style blather that helped get us in the current "complicated" mess in Iraq.) Narrative Strategies
Inherited verbal or other social responses are fragmentary and trivial.
Actually, when you're dead you don't seem to notice the passing of time quite so much; it begins to seem very, very trivial.
So, next time someone enjoins you in a chinwag about ‘sticky-business’, you'll certainly have something trivial to add to the conversation besides the price of tea in Tuktoyuktuk.
If nothing else, those with purple feelers are less likely to want to be out in freezing weather, to pick a trivial example.
The peacoats, polos, Frisbee sports, and Arrested Development DVDs might seem like trivial favorites of the white elite, but they represent certain gateways that minorities have to navigate. Letters
There are several lessons to be learned from this incident, some trivial, some quite important.
I have written before that any history of poetry is inevitably a history of change in poetry, and that an inevitable consequence is that the well-wrought urn is almost invariably a trivial accomplishment. Only Change and No Urns?
The director tried to wave aside these issues as trivial details that could be settled later.
My only point was that, no matter what your version of quantum BRST, you are using homological techniques to isolate an invariant piece of some non-trivial representation, and understanding how this works out requires working with non-trivial representations. String Theory is Losing the Public Debate
Those words of my New Hampshire neighbor seem to mock my trivial but obstinate frustration.
The houseman who attended to him was conservative, and would not depart from Boillot's orders in the most trivial detail. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Tony often gets angry about trivial things.
That is practically what Michelet did, and though the garrulous old gossip drivelled endlessly about matters of supreme unimportance and ecstasized in his mild way over trivial anecdotes which he expanded beyond all proportion, and though his sentimentality and chauvinism sometimes discredited his quite plausible conjectures, he was nevertheless the only French historian who had overcome the limitation of time and made another age live anew before our eyes. Là-bas
The brigadier is a capital fellow; and though he does keep us hard at work, at any rate he works hard himself, and does not send us galloping about with all sorts of trivial messages that might as well be unsent. With Moore at Corunna
All blunt orbital trauma should be taken seriously even when an injury is apparently trivial.
Work is common but great, trivial and difficult, difficult and difficult.
While the word quantum is now used as an exotic adjective to augment the sales of everything from diets to fishing tackle, the connection proposed here is not trivial. ENTANGLED MINDS
I don't wish to trivialise a potentially fatal disease but received wisdom isn't always infallible, not even received medical wisdom.
Her feelings for Simon seemed trivial by comparison .
It was a trivial habit; it smacked of privatism, of egoizing. THE DISPOSSESSED
A woman writer who evokes an intensely personal landscape still finds she is dismissed as slight, precious, trivial.
So long as these remain at the centre of any newsgathering institution, then the risk of episodic and trivial coverage increases.
Wipe out pettiness, irritations, illusions, trivialities.
But sports and leisure are not trivial. Christianity Today
Every trivial action must be thoroughly motivated, and the finish of the playlet, instead of occurring upon the 'catabasis,' or general windup of the action, must develop the most striking feature of the playlet, so that the curtain may come down on a surprise, or at least an event toward which the entire action has been progressing. Writing for Vaudeville
There are frequent, stimulating insights here (such as in the Schumann chapter mentioned above), but there are then many trivialities that are dressed up to sound imposing.
Even fewer thought it would erupt over an issue so seemingly trivial.
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
From the frequency with which this fracture occurs while cranking a motor-car, it is conveniently described as _Chauffeur's fracture_; we have observed in doctors, who have sustained this fracture in their own persons, that they were under the impression that they had sustained a trivial sprain of the wrist. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
My interest is no mere trivial and reactionary antiquarianism.
We pay for this frivolity, this triviality, this nugacity of a pastime. Times, Sunday Times
The first topology is a trivial one, just stating the genes are allelically identical.
Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity.
Others bark like ` toy-dogs, 'while still other kinds utter a whistling noise, from which one species derives its trivial name of ` whistler' among the traders, and is the ` siffleur 'of the Canadian voyageurs. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
This is neither an academic nor a trivial matter. Times, Sunday Times
If you enjoy games, why not compile a list of objective test questions to use in Trivial Pursuits?
Both use as starting points the relationships of the protagonists to their personal avatars, iconoclasts who encourage their aversion to the trivial workaday world.
After reading these… my explanation seems silly and trivial.
How dare this person measure the work of a pastor in such trivial terms? Christianity Today
But the demons are also object correlatives for the characters' emotions - emotions that could seem all too trivial to a detached observer.
Missing silver spoons and cooked petty cash were trivialities usually expiable at the price of a boot-assisted dismissal; but this --! The Yellow Claw
These are not trivialities; they are the essence of his argument.
Would it not end up trivialising and over-simplifying human issues that the narrative was presuming to metaphor?
She works herself up about the most trivial things.
If the bulk of New England writing was ponderous, at least it was rarely trivial.
He could remember every trivial incident in great detail.
This kind of trivial harping is exactly why nobody with half a brain takes “Progressives” seriously. Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’
If the review is negative and gives a non-trivial reason of why the paper should not be published e.g., a clever break of a cryptosystem, a little-known fact that makes a study useless, etc., the review should be published instead of the paper. Reviews Should be Published
The list of people I'm hot-wired to bust is a fairly long one, including but not limited to anyone who does one of the following things to women: Condescends, objectifies, ridicules, trivializes, and so forth. Karen Stabiner: The Philip Roth Reader: When He Was Good He Was Very, Very Good -- and Something of a Feminist
It is entertaining to read but seems rather trivial in comparison with its predecessor.
The difference may now seem trivial, but not then. Times, Sunday Times
Is it any wonder that the public's perception of science is that of a bunch of boring egomaniacs jargonizing endlessly about trivialities?
My impression is that the technical issues, non-trivial though they are (especially as regards testing), pale before the political and liability issues.
The thing that had been troubling her was, she thought, trivial. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
In the last two decades, a blast of outrage has been directed at the legal system for ignoring or trivializing complaints of domestic violence.
He is too light, too slight, too trivial, a figure with insufficient gravity.
Previously it was fairly trivial to locate a zombie running on an infected Windows machine, by just tracing the source IP back.
It's most effective used as a road map of the recent past, or more trivially, a window on what happened the year you were born.
Examples of non-trivial inconsistent systems of connexive logic satisfying Conjunctive Simplification are presented in Sections 1.4 and 1.5. Connexive Logic
Authorize the others is a half the battle, an all matters whether important or trivial, can't authorize work the other people's person, destine will meet tremendous obstacle.
The average viewer should, of course, by now be immune to the trivialisation of religion.
But Congressional investigations of baseball stars have longer news cycles in Washington than the latest trade-imbalance reports, and perjury is not trivial. Today, we're not talking about ... that guy
Each of the short stories in Dubliners concludes with a showing that manifests the integrity and indivisible nature of some momentary ‘triviality,’ as Joyce calls it.
The placatory measures could well have some effect on the population—they're not trivial and will be received quite well," said a Western diplomat familiar with the area. Region's Unrest Raises Heat on Saudi Leaders
You may question the assumption of randomness all you want, but the theory makes a nontrivial prediction The Weasel Thread
To pound one's wife to a jelly and break a few of her ribs is a trivial offence compared with sleeping out under the naked stars because one has not the price of a doss. PROPERTY VERSUS PERSON
When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic. Familiar Spanish Travels
Most of regurgitation were trivial or mild, and involved just one valve.
Success at politics seldom depends entirely upon good intentions and is often torpedoed with a single strike by matters as trivial as boyhood pranks or otherwise pardonable youthful indiscretions.
Perhaps they were feeling above mundane trivials of life, still moving apace, bypassing obstacles such as moss-covered trees through the vast green tunnel.
These punishments were usually for trivial offences such as dirty boots, brasses, or badly blancoed kit.
I built a fearsome reputation through stickling over trivialities, and set the seal on it by publicly flogging a colonel (because one of his men was late for roll-call) at the first of the great fortnightly reviews which the Queen and court attended. Flashman's Lady
He has been getting a lot more aggressive recently over such trivial things as the housework and his dinner.
The conflict over the caricatures, like almost any other of a religious nature or pretext, is childish and trivial and should be a work of fiction. Totem And Task
If you want to renormalise to a different one, it's trivial to do so. WordPress.com News
When we did have time alone, it seemed as though we spent it arguing about trivialities.
Let me take two other examples, one rather trivial and one conceivably the most important problem facing the world. Times, Sunday Times
She is seen as a tough questioner unlikely to be caught up in trivialities. Archive 2008-10-01
Patients with trivial, self-limiting illnesses should first consult a pharmacist. Times, Sunday Times
It too easily degenerated into a concern with trivial verbal classifications, and artificial categories.
They walked on, talking trivialities, two middle-aged men with lives in their hundreds of thousands in their keeping. LOHENGRIN
The memory stung him now with its triviality compared to what Alistair would go through. A WORM OF DOUBT
You might think that this is a lot of fuss about something trivial. Times, Sunday Times
What may be termed the anecdotic literature of the Court is particularly rich and trivial, and this is only to be expected in a country where the monarchy and its representative are so forcibly and constantly brought home to the people's consciousness. William of Germany
The prison sentence seemed rather harsh, considering the triviality of the offence.
That suggests the possibility of anything but a trivial role for land value taxation in many of the rich countries.
If you were being narky you might say journalists grandstand and bloggers get bogged down in trivialities. The difference between journalists and bloggers « Squash
The atmosphere is relaxed and cosy, ideal for a quiet conversation on weighty world matters or passing trivialities.
North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world's most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.
Be clear that your child should tell you straight away if anything unusual or frightening has happened, even if it seems silly or trivial to him and especially if he's been told not to tell.
The utter trivialities they deem important makes me want to weep.
Yet is there not something trivial and demeaning about insisting that the'real' meaning of ancient texts is the path to peace and common understanding? Times, Sunday Times
Our daily weather continues to dictate the trivial scenarios of our lives-and remains manna to the rag trade, the tourist industry, and heaven knows what else.
In a recent very scholarly 843-page anthology titled The Nature of Consciousness I found in the index one trivial reference to the word parapsychology. Experiencing the Next World Now
She argues that the paper trivialises legitimate public concern over GM foods.
Other people may think that our habits of daily living are trivial and stupid, but to us they concern surviving as a person.
How has it come about that we are prepared to describe a serious physical mutilation as a trivial adjustment?
Now they want to belittle and divide us by unmeaningful and trivial talks of pillars and temple, some seem even Obsessed by it. Back By Popular Demand: John Kerry!
Abortion must be the most trivial thing in the world–right down there with blowing your nose–to be outbalanced by convenience issues like these. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense?
The difference between the rich and the workingman is a trivial distinction? Who Bears the Tax Burden?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Yet here we are, hours later, arguing footling amendments, ridiculously trivial rubbish, that the so-called famous chairman of the select committee, all on his own behalf, changes the number, and all the rest of it.
Still, the worry about overextension is real, and it reflects one of the stranger ideas of our time — that for the American military the apparently trivial problem of peacekeeping has recently proved to be more difficult even than waging war. Peace is Hell
Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics which concern only the interests of eternity; the men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a commonplace censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
It trivialises these horrendous crimes, insults the intelligence of your readers and sullies the name of the band. Times, Sunday Times
Global warming will definitely affect the future of every person on the Earth directly and to a non-trivial extent.
Even though they might have chosen to act as surrogates, the motives of these women would have been commercial, and the whole enterprise seemed to trivialize and vulgarize childbirth.
With all of these pieces the code for a trivial report could look something like this: use Report; my $report = Report - > new (); Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power. Scott Adams
Furthermore, this view rejects the idea that knowledge can be decontextualized, or something that can in any trivial way be grounded on an ‘external reality.’
The poet sees in life a truth that gives significance to the otherwise mean and trivial things.
a trivial young woman
The cause of his recent trivial indisposition was a hostile criticism in a local paper, but with the dismissal of the critic the incident is now regarded as closed, and M. Gordkin will resume his saltatorial activities in a day or two. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914
The reason that the voucher is a nice idea is that, with state support of state universities at almost trivial levels in many cases, what is the point of even having a state school? State Universities vs. Vouchers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The point is trivial, since she was six months old at the time of this first visit and obviously remembered nothing of it, but it indicates a certain looseness in brushwork. Twenty Letters to a Father
Once a person takes upon himself community leadership, it is best to minimize public participation in activities which have a smack of triviality.
They truly suffered, especially in 1915, and I am in no way willing to minimize or trivialize that tragedy.
No more office backstabbing, social one-upmanship or water-cooler trivialities. Times, Sunday Times
There is thus an urgent need to find some nontrivial topics on which America and China can work together and so rediscover the win-win logic that prevailed during the Age of Optimism. Zero-Sum Future
In it, I correct him about a 1964 Marvel oddment and prove that there's nothing too trivial for some of us comic buffs.
Even if the case is of very little importance, involving trivial loss, seeking truth from facts shall always be the norm for action.
Renewing within a domain is trivial - you just set up the template for autoenrollment and you're good to go. MSDN Blogs

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