trifling

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Trivial, or of little importance.

   • However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
   • Trifling, apparently, was the circumstance that led to the restoration of Charles. But there is nothing really little or trifling in the government of God.
2. 2

   Frivolous.

3. 3

   Good-for-nothing

   Good-for-nothing; shady or lazy; scrub.

   • You trifling good for nothin’ type of brother.
   • My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]
   • "To hell with that trifling nigga!", and "You deserved every bad thing you got!"
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   1. 4

      The act of one who trifles

      The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

      • He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.
   2. 5

      present participle and gerund of trifle

The neighborhood

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