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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who trifles; especially, a shallow, light-minded, or flippant person; an idler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who trifles.
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- noun a
pewterer , who produced smallpewter utensils , likesaltcellars .
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- noun one who behaves lightly or not seriously
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Examples
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I was not an amateur, much less a "trifler" at anything.
Archive 2007-12-01 vonjobi 2007
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I was not an amateur, much less a "trifler" at anything.
Gilda Cordero Fernando: Filipina vonjobi 2007
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Ah, you have guessed it, you wanton of the night walls, you trifler in jimai najaiz.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Julian is also a dangerous drunk and a moral trifler, filled with envy and insecurity, a man with no discernible convictions.
Books From the Great Depression Peter Conn 2009
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For if thou shouldst import new learning amongst dullards, thou wilt be thought a useless trifler, void of knowledge; while if thy fame in the city o'ertops that of the pretenders to cunning knowledge, thou wilt win their dislike.
Medea 2008
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For if thou shouldst import new learning amongst dullards, thou wilt be thought a useless trifler, void of knowledge; while if thy fame in the city o'ertops that of the pretenders to cunning knowledge, thou wilt win their dislike.
Medea 2008
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And is it, she thought, for a trifler such as this, so unmeaning, so unfeeling, I have risked my whole of hope and happiness?
Camilla 2008
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He is not an insignificant trifler, whose object it is to raise a laugh at his own expense, or that of any other.
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No, as such she has seen I could resist her; nor yet the light trifler of a spring or two, neglected when no longer a novelty; no, no! — it is a companion for ever, it is a solace for every care, it is a bosom friend through every period of life that I seek in Miss Beverley!
Cecilia 2008
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A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one, would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent.
The Essays 2007
Related Words
synonyms (67)
Words with the same meaning
- Sunday painter
- amateur
- bungler
- butterfly
- clock watcher
- coquet
- criticaster
- dabbler
- dabster
- dallier
- dawdle
- dawdler
- diddler
- dilettante
- dillydallier
- disregarder
- do-nothing
- dodger
- dolittle
- doodler
- faineant
- flirt
- fribble
- frivoler
- gentleman of leisure
- goldbrick
- goldbricker
- goof-off
- grammaticaster
- half scholar
- idler
- ignorer
- laggard
- lingerer
- loafer
- loiterer
- loller
- lotus-eater
- lounger
- lubber
- malingerer
- mope
- moper
- neglecter
- negligent
- philologaster
- philosophaster
- piddler
- potterer
- procrastinator
- putterer
- sciolist
- shilly-shallier
- shirker
- slacker
- slouch
- sloucher
- sloven
- slug
- sluggard
- slut
- smatterer
- stick-in-the-mud
- time killer
- time waster
- tomfool
- waiter on Providence
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