trifling's Usage Examples:

The wound was trifling and would probably have been cured with ease if he had been allowed to employ an English doctor whom he trusted.

Trifling acts of her father are described at length in exaggerated terms, while little notice is taken of important constitutional matters.

His astonishing talents were wasted on trifling themes and in a, fruitless resistance to the modern spirit in literature.

To the Church he left little and to the pope only a trifling souvenir.

Upon this apparently trifling question arose a controversy which lasted many years, occupied several universities, and led to the interposition of personages no less important than the pope and the emperor, but which is thought to have largely contributed to the final downfall of the Arabian medicine.

The want of a central government opelated injuriously, for it often happened that intricate negotiations and solemn treaties between several sovereign states were required before a line could be constructed; and, moreover, the course it was to take was often determined less by the general exigencies of commerce than by many trifling interests or desires of neighboring states.

The latter, making some trifling concessions, consented to present himself before Elizabeth.

But these figures are trifling compared with those at the end of the middle ages.

The land in Scotland was now, with trifling exceptions, let on leases for terms varying from twenty to thirty years, and in farms of sufficient size to employ at the least two or three ploughs.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

Synonyms:

dawdling, delay, holdup, dalliance,

Antonyms:

good, worthy, maximum, maximal, ample,