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trifles
noun as in fiddle-faddle
noun as in minutia
noun as in small potatoes
noun as in trivia
noun as in triviality
Example Sentences
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.
September 2002 - and the Daily Mirror reports there's "No Eton trifles for Harry", revealing his 18th birthday had been a bit of a damp squib because he spent the evening travelling back to school from his father's estate.
He added, echoing an adage, “The law does not concern itself with trifles.”
KHARKIV, Ukraine — A 30-year-old former British military captain faced a personal crossroads several months before Russia invaded Ukraine, as he contemplated a desk job at a security firm and a future spent discussing trifles with his sisters and mother in their hometown in southeastern England.
He instructed Shoigu to provide Russian troops, many of whom have been ill-equipped, with weapons, medical kits, rations and footwear “at the most advanced and highest level,” Tass reported, because “there can be no trifles on the battlefield.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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