What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared! |
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. |
But this minority was denounced by the orthodox as innovators and triflers. |
If doing small things well be trifling, then the French are triflers. |
Be serious with the serious, gay with the gay, and trifle with the triflers. |
Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war. |