Crossword-Solution: TRIFLING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Trifling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Trifle |
| Trifling | a. | Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| TRIFLING | anagram | FLIRTING |
We have 63 clues for the answer “TRIFLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of slight worth | 1 answer |
| Utterly unimportant thing | 2 answers |
| Bavardage | 2 answers |
| Not worth considering | 4 answers |
| twopenny | 5 answers |
| of little importance | 6 answers |
| trumpery | 7 answers |
| Niggling | 9 answers |
| fribble | 14 answers |
| in name only | 17 answers |
| titular | 17 answers |
| Nominal | 17 answers |
| secondary matter | 20 answers |
| unessential | 23 answers |
| Small thing | 23 answers |
| small talk | 23 answers |
| no matter | 25 answers |
| Mere | 27 answers |
| Negligible | 29 answers |
| Ostensible | 29 answers |
| Minimal | 31 answers |
| pleasantry | 32 answers |
| Inconsequential | 32 answers |
| " __ bagatelle!" | 37 answers |
| cartoon | 38 answers |
| Comedy __ | 38 answers |
| Trinket | 39 answers |
| weeny | 39 answers |
| facetiousness | 40 answers |
| Travesty | 44 answers |
| joviality | 44 answers |
| Mockery | 45 answers |
| Parody | 47 answers |
| Satire | 47 answers |
| playing | 48 answers |
| puny | 49 answers |
| Spoof | 49 answers |
| Verbal | 50 answers |
| meaningless | 50 answers |
| unnecessary | 51 answers |
| Farce | 53 answers |
| Inane | 53 answers |
| Unavailing | 54 answers |
| Burlesque | 55 answers |
| Petty | 55 answers |
| immaterial | 55 answers |
| Stunted | 57 answers |
| caricature | 59 answers |
| Lilliputian | 59 answers |
| undersized | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
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Sentences with TRIFLING (5)
Nothing was heard in reply to the signal but the gurgle and cluck of one of these invisible wheels—together with a few small sounds which a sad man would have called moans, and a happy man laughter—caused by the flapping of the waters against trifling objects in other parts of the stream.
The original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature, the moderate proportion of intellect, and the very trifling admixture of moral and spiritual ingredients; these latter qualities, indeed, being in barely enough measure to keep the old gentleman from walking on all-fours.
There were many times when either side might have withdrawn without dishonor and thus ended hostilities, but from the mad abandon with which each invariably renewed hostilities I soon came to believe that what need not have been more than a trifling skirmish would end only with the complete extermination of one force or the other.
They hang a man—which is a trifling punishment; this breaks the hearts of his family—which is a heavy one.
The jail was a trifling little brick den that stood in a marsh at the edge of the village, and no guards were afforded for it; indeed, it was seldom occupied.
Quotes with TRIFLING (3)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
— But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth? — Man governs it himself, — Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question. — Pardon me, — the stranger responded gently, — but in order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for a certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how can ma…
The Awakening Land" p628 A strange, uneasy feeling ran over him. If he had been wrong about his mother in this, might he by any chance have been wrong in other things about her also? Could it be even faintly possible that the children of pioneers like himself, born under more benign conditions than their parents, hated them because they themselves were weaker, resented it when their parents expected them to be strong, and so invented all kinds of intricate reasoning to prove …
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–2015).