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Definition of Trifle |
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Trifle
A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it. To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. Related Definitions: Act, Affair, As, Away, Cake, Composed, Dignity, Dish, Fritter, Gravity, Importance, In, Indulge, It, Levity, Little, Light, Make, Money, No, Of, Or, Over, Paltry, Poured, Spend, Syllabub, Talk, Thing, To, Treat, Trifle, Trivial, Value, Vanity, Very, Waste, Weight, Wine, With, Without |
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Trifle Quotations
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. Marcus Aurelius Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. Dwight L. Moody A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. Blaise Pascal Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Homer Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. Samuel Butler Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. W. Somerset Maugham The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. Louis Agassiz Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. Henry Cabot Lodge One must not trifle with love. Alfred de Musset |
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Trifle Translations
trifle in Dutch is bagatel, futiliteit, beuzelarij trifle in French is bagatelle trifle in German is Kleinigkeit |
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