trifle

• Embedded: It may just be the word of the decade. might have been regarded as a trifle, a slight, lad-lit romp, the West Coast variant of Toby Young's —  Home | The New York Observer
• Once you have, perhaps you can help me puzzle out this love affair the ladies seem to have with Anna Faris in Fesser and I watched it the other night and, aside from now growling people's given names, the one thing I brought away from this trifle is a renewed love for —  pullquote
• We have been kept by some meaningless trifle which is magnified in our excitement and acquires an importance which it never had before: a word, a look from those whom we are going to desert. —  The Choice of Life
• Thus by a trifle were the wheels of a great government blocked for a long time! —  Forty-Six Years in the Army
• He owed a tailor a trifle, and a bootmaker a trifle,--and something to the man who sold gloves and shirts; and yet he had done his best to keep out of debt with more than Irish pertinacity, living very closely, breakfasting upon tea and a roll, and dining frequently for a shilling at a luncheon-house up a court near Lincoln's Inn. —  Phineas Finn The Irish Member

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