trifling

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I tore through the pages, flipping over postcards, glancing at itemized invoices for construction projects, gleefully — and guiltily — poking my way through decades of a single family’s triflings.

From Washington Post

Nothing is more melancholy than Swift's elaborate triflings, because they represent the efforts of a powerful intellect passing into madness under enforced inaction, to kill time by childish occupation.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Repeatedly, I had offered triflings of conversation to classmates, only to be answered with blunted replies or silence.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann

In such a case he would degrade himself in his own person, descending from the high and serene region where majesty dwells, and which is beyond the reach of mean and pitiful triflings.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus

Of the pedantic triflings of commentators, a controversy among the Portuguese on the works of Camoens is not the least.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac