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- noun Plural form of
trifler .
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Examples
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Go, triflers, learn the lesson of human misery; our life is made up of struggles; some men there be that find their fortune soon, others have to wait, while some at once are blest.
The Suppliants 2008
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Go, triflers, learn the lesson of human misery; our life is made up of struggles; some men there be that find their fortune soon, others have to wait, while some at once are blest.
The Suppliants 2008
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By my neighbours I am considered a female misanthrope, because I have closed my doors against a set of triflers, whose visits are ‘fit only for those, who if they did not that, would do nothing.’
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“If you are as weary of your lives as I am, I will find time and place to pledge mine against one or both; at present, I have no leisure for the disputes of triflers.”
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The most promising males of her caste became, with few exceptions, triflers or dilettantes.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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The most promising males of her caste became, with few exceptions, triflers or dilettantes.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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I have read and known certain Kabbalistic triflers, whose insanity provokes my unceasing as astonishment.
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The most promising males of her caste became, with few exceptions, triflers or dilettantes.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Plainly, they are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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The most promising males of her caste became, with few exceptions, triflers or dilettantes.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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