Crossword-Solution: TRIFLES
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TRIFLES | anagram | FILTERS, LIFTERS, RELIFTS, STIFLER |
We have 27 clues for the answer “TRIFLES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Unimportant things | 1 answer |
| Layered desserts with spirit-soaked sponge cake, custard and fruit | 1 answer |
| Items of no import. | 1 answer |
| Paltry trinkets | 1 answer |
| Petty things | 1 answer |
| Rich English desserts | 1 answer |
| Small potatoes, figuratively | 1 answer |
| They hardly matter | 1 answer |
| They're not important | 1 answer |
| Little things | 2 answers |
| Bagatelles. | 2 answers |
| THINGS of small value | 3 answers |
| Toys (with) | 4 answers |
| Dallies | 5 answers |
| Small potatoes | 6 answers |
| Toys. | 6 answers |
| ADDITIONAL UNSPECIFIED ODDS AND ENDS | 10 answers |
| Knickknacks. | 11 answers |
| baubles | 15 answers |
| secondary matter | 20 answers |
| frippery | 22 answers |
| Small thing | 23 answers |
| no matter | 25 answers |
| trivia | 44 answers |
| odds and ends | 50 answers |
| inessential | 63 answers |
| in-consequence | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TRIFLES (5)
Troy’s face was very expressive, and any observer who had seen him now would hardly have believed him to be a man who had laughed, and sung, and poured love-trifles into a woman’s ear.
Dames of elevated rank, likewise, whose doors she entered in the way of her occupation, were accustomed to distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer’s defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.
The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles; those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.
However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Did these labors of Hercules fill up his time to his contentment, and quiet his appetite for work? Not entirely: The trifles with which he amused himself in hours of pain and languor bore the mark of his mind.
Quotes with TRIFLES (3)
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say, — 'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.
He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.
Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled... in a unique and inimitable way.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).