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trifler

NOUN
  1. one who behaves lightly or not seriously

How To Use trifler In A Sentence

  • They are triflers with God, with one another and with their own souls.
  • What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared!
  • If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence? A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • 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
  • He is not an insignificant trifler, whose object it is to raise a laugh at his own expense, or that of any other. Count Robert of Paris
  • 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
  • You are not the callous trifler you pretend to be.
  • Our suspicion that his was not a room for triflers was confirmed by the wine list, which had the heft of a big-city phone book.
  • Trifler, wilt thou sing till June?
  • Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war.
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