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  • verb transitive, British To make something appear trivial.

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  • verb make trivial or insignificant

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Examples

  • The Russian singer insists that the Braveheart star is attempting to "trivialise" the alleged abuse by filing his own extortion claims against her, reports

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • Many might think that in doing so I trivialise the struggles undergone by people of colour under that heinous system.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Where you trivialise the consequences of such prescriptivism on the grounds that reviewers have no “genuine power” to prescribe and that “even the shallowest reader is easily able to read the critique/review critically, i.e., reject it,” I would say this is a level of dismissive complacency I have to strive not to over-react to.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • We are trying to trivialise the Great War, when people fought for our freedoms.

    Chickens: What The Inbetweeners did next 2011

  • Where you trivialise the effects of prescriptivism in critique, I consider this highly naive in light of its socio-political uses in linguistics.

    There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009

  • That really does sound like you want to trivialise marriage.

    Confining Beliefs to Defined Domains 2009

  • Many might think that in doing so I trivialise the struggles undergone by people of colour under that heinous system.

    A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009

  • Where you trivialise the consequences of such prescriptivism on the grounds that reviewers have no “genuine power” to prescribe and that “even the shallowest reader is easily able to read the critique/review critically, i.e., reject it,” I would say this is a level of dismissive complacency I have to strive not to over-react to.

    There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009

  • I'm not trying to trivialise that – it's a real issue.

    The Technology newsbucket: iPad's killer app, Facebook updated, Xmarks lives! and more Charles Arthur 2010

  • Where you trivialise the effects of prescriptivism in critique, I consider this highly naive in light of its socio-political uses in linguistics.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

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