trifle
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The game badly misses Alcaraz—“Tennis needs him,” Sinner said Sunday—but no tennis player should trifle with a bad wrist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Still, it is the frolicsome rapport between the two stars that gives this comic trifle of a play its allure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Looking towards Christmas, the baker said he would be making a triple chocolate tart for his cousin Grace and might recreate his trifle from the show.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
Enter the trifle, a dessert that doesn’t get nearly enough credit for its multipurpose holiday charm.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
A trifle wildly, he looked at the Comanches near his seat and signalled the row to give way.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
For me, trifles sit in the same category as icebox cakes—slightly chaotic, unexpectedly good and suspiciously easy.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
As the judge in that case noted, the law is not concerned with insignificant trifles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
She’s interested in adding regular savories such as pasties and sausage rolls, and maybe bringing new treats such as trifles or Eton Messes to her roster.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Other, seemingly familiar terms — romper room, sherry trifles — have their innocence stripped from them to reveal a second, more sinister meaning.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
“They trifled with us today,” Mr. Trump said Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Her aim is to silence the messenger and leave the impression that she isn’t to be trifled with by the media, shades of Margaret Thatcher.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Sleep is not to be trifled with; there is nothing low-stakes about it.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
"Uncle Harlo's influence is not a thing to be trifled with. He's done us a tremendous favor. You need to remember you're not just representing yourself today."
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022
As someone who could make them famous among their peers, I was no longer a person to be trifled with.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
The traffic cone guys weren't letting such trifling issues dampen their day.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
But it’s the songs that talk about brushing off stifling, trifling men, including the title track and “What Have You Done For Me Lately,” that have the most staying power.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026
Before IMG and ProServ, athletes typically got trifling rewards for endorsing products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Frankly, the more trifling the crime, the better this franchise’s comedy aspirations would work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
That old trifling Cholly been out of jail two whole days and ain’t been here yet to see if his own child was ’live or dead.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing trifle
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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