trifled

• “A worthy henchman, as indignant as was _Sam Weller_ when he found his beloved master's name trifled with, writes to ask me, "Ain't nobody to be whopped for takin 'this here liberty, Sir?”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891

• “He was sure they must have 'trifled' a great deal, or they would have accomplished more than they had.”

  Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce

• “He was sure they must have "trifled" a great deal, or they would have accomplished more than they had.”

  A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy

• “He was a real power in the party, someone not to be trifled with.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Good Fight

• “It shows a young woman pulled dead from the Thames, the locket clasped in her hand a clear indication that she has been trifled with by some heartless cad.”

  The Guardian: In Search of a Masterpiece by Christopher Lloyd – review

• “These guys are at the top of their game and not to be trifled with.”

  Interior Secretary Salazar lies about drilling peer review. | RedState

• “They're also aware that baby boomers are a large and powerful voting bloc, not to be trifled with.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Deficit Hysteria: Washington's War on the Young

• “Word would quickly spread from the Alps to the Crimea that the new Macedonian king was not to be trifled with.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “And at the center of it all is Alex Cooperstunning, single-minded, accomplished, and not to be trifled with whether she’s in or out of a courtroom.”

  Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein: Book summary

• “All this succeeded in demonstrating that China was a country that would not be patronized or trifled with.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Diplomat Looks East

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