trifler

I was not an amateur, much less a "trifler" at anything.

Archive 2007-12-01 vonjobi 2007

I was not an amateur, much less a "trifler" at anything.

Gilda Cordero Fernando: Filipina vonjobi 2007

Ah, you have guessed it, you wanton of the night walls, you trifler in jimai najaiz.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

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

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

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

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

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 2008

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

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