Associations to the word «Trifling»

Wiktionary

TRIFLING, adjective. Trivial, or of little importance.
TRIFLING, adjective. Idle or frivolous.
TRIFLING, adjective. (AAVE) Of suspicious character, typically secretive or deceitful; shady.
TRIFLING, noun. The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

Dictionary definition

TRIFLING, noun. The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working.
TRIFLING, adjective. Not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope