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Trifling

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈtɹaɪfliŋ

Definitions

The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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Examples

“He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return⟳ to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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See also

triflingness triflocin trifloxystrobin triflubazam triflumezopyrim triflumidate

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