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To treat without seriousness or respect
“This is too serious a matter to trifle with, and it's too heartfelt an issue.”
To behave or spend time in a frivolous way
“His antipathy to legal studies led him to trifle away in the most gentlemanly and unsatisfactory manner.”
To waste something frivolously
“It concerns every man, who will not trifle away his soul, and fool himself into irrecoverable misery.”
To act flirtatiously
“Christopher countered by saying he was hardly going to trifle with his best friend's sister, and he was certainly not some rake who would play her false.”
To flirt, especially in a manner that is unfaithful to one's significant other
To spend one's time in an aimless, idle way
To interfere with (something) in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations
To deceive or fool someone
To waste time through aimless wandering or indecision
To be slow to act
Piffles or twaddles
Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information
“It is true that this production is a literary trifle, but it is not altogether a useless trifle.”
Attractive articles of little value or use
“It was a cheap trifle, made not of silver, but tin, with no ornamenting jewels.”
Plural for a small amount of something
“I'm getting just a trifle too old for such frantic scramblings as this morning's little fray.”
Plural for a ridiculously small amount
“The fine imposed is but a trifle compared to his immense wealth.”
Plural for senseless talk or writing
Plural for the quality of being negligible
Plural for a very small or inadequate amount of money
Plural for the bite of a flea, or the mark caused by such a bite
Plural for benefit paid by the state to the unemployed
Plural for worse than nothing
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