trifle

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

Nominating this popcorn trifle for best picture is silly, but at least it didn’t get a screenplay nod for a script that’s simply: See Brad Pitt go, go, go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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

Brendan, Annie, Patsy, come in for the fried black puddin’, the siz- zlin’ sausages and the lovely trifle soaked in the best of Spanish sherry.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn’t like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

“While we want stable relationships,” Graham said, “we will not be trifled with.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

He was not one to be trifled with.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

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

He warned that Robert Millikan’s proud institution in Pasadena was not to be trifled with.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

At first blush, that may seem like a trifling concept.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Before IMG and ProServ, athletes typically got trifling rewards for endorsing products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

To state the obvious, the big picture is all this is trifling and academic because the government won by a million miles, with a majority of 120.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

This cavalier treatment of tragic circumstances is of a piece with the entire musical’s approach to the hardships Annie endures—they’re treated as trifling in the face of her new life in the Warbucks mansion.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2024

Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends?

From "Grendel" by John Gardner