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Sentence Examples
| Our suspicion that his was not a room for triflers was confirmed by the wine list, which had the heft of a big-city phone book. |
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| Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war. |
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| They are triflers with God, with one another and with their own souls. |
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| What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared! |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| But this minority was denounced by the orthodox as innovators and triflers. |
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| Be serious with the serious, gay with the gay, and trifle with the triflers. |
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| Then, if you really believe, if it's so serious to you, why do you make a show of it for triflers? |
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| The officers, almost all nobles, rarely showed much concern for their men, and were often mere courtiers and triflers. |
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| I have read and known certain kabbalistic triflers, whose insanity provokes my unceasing as astonishment. |
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| What triflers, on any other ground, were Socrates and Plato. |
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| A race of triflers arise, who think only of the present hour. |
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| They are not the triflers who balance a feather against a soul. |
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| If doing small things well be trifling, then the French are triflers. |
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