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.

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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

Trifle Translations

trifle in Dutch is bagatel, futiliteit, beuzelarij
trifle in French is bagatelle
trifle in German is Kleinigkeit

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