trivial
Example Sentences
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Such trivial concerns were left to lesser schools, institutions that perhaps couldn’t appreciate the sanctity of a 10-week regular season, the purity of life without football scholarships, or the venerable tradition of Harvard-Yale.
The fact that it was a parlor game, not pointillism, that inspired the lyric is proof of Sondheim’s credo that “playful doesn’t mean trivial any more than solemn means serious.”
One habit that precluded improvement was their reading of trivial romantic novels.
That might sound trivial, but traveling is stressful enough.
She called the BBC's findings "disturbing", adding: "There's enormous risks. It's not a trivial condition."
From BBC
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