trifling matter

Example Sentences

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"Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking."

From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2023

For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

Toni knew that for a black girl to love herself was no trifling matter.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

Money has to be part of the calculus now because college debt in the United States is no trifling matter.

From Washington Times • May 2, 2018

Their agreement was about no trifling matter; and if they did agree, all the better: all the better if your daughter made this her voluntary asylum.

From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim