trifling

Plural: triflings

Noun

• An act of wasting time or treating something lightly.
• the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
• The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

Verb

• waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
• act frivolously
• consider not very seriously
  • "He is trifling with her"
• present participle and gerund of trifle

Adjective Satellite

• not worth considering
  • "a trifling matter"

Adj

• Trivial, or of little importance.
• Idle or frivolous.
• Action seen as nasty and/or dirty.
• Good-for-nothing, scrub, lazy.

Examples

• Considering such a low-scoring word was mere "TRIFLING" with her valuable ’Q’ tile.
• Then she said she doesn’t take showers, that’s just trifling.
• You trifling good for nothin’ type of brother.

Synonyms

dalliance, dally, dawdling, frivol, negligible, paltry, piddle, piddle away, play, trifle, wanton, wanton away, base, contemptible, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, futile, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, minor, nondescript, nothingburger, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pissant, pitiful, pointless, silly, simple, slight, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched

Related Words

trifle

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