“It is true that this production is a literary trifle, but it is not altogether a useless trifle.”

“It was a cheap trifle, made not of silver, but tin, with no ornamenting jewels.”

“I'm getting just a trifle too old for such frantic scramblings as this morning's little fray.”

“Last night, and most of the time today, you were the trifler, the incorrigible jester.”

“Yet let not the mere linguist be despised, as a useless trifler in the field of literature.”

“Sometimes he really is a trifler, but for some things he is very reliable.”

“Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war.”

“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.”

“I have read and known certain kabbalistic triflers, whose insanity provokes my unceasing as astonishment.”