trifling

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

The planet’s trifling atmosphere—about 1 percent the density of our own—is notoriously too thin to help slow down a spacecraft attempting to land, but can still create turbulence and potential disaster.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Frankly, the more trifling the crime, the better this franchise’s comedy aspirations would work.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

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

She felt so angry at Hecate and so tired of being manipulated by the gods that she wasn’t going to let any trifling problems stand in her way.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan