Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make or cause to appear trivial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render trivial or paltry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make something appear
trivial
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make trivial or insignificant
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Examples
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And there is a tendency to kind of trivialize those things as you get older, to kind of be patronizing about those things.
Michael Sheen: Interview with 'New Moon' star on fitting in with the cast | EW.com 2009
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Maybe you should "trivialize" Mr. Murtaugh's letter, in its entirety.
McCain Campaign's Muddled, Self-Contradictory Message On Ayers 2009
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So then those who "trivialize" a non-telic approach to biology, they being akin to holocaust deniers, should then be subject to the same judicial remedies.
A Solution to ID? 2007
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Hillary Clinton and John Edwards caught making comments about getting rid of other candidates in debate the ones who quote, "trivialize" debates.
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Israel also objects to attempts to "trivialize" the Holocaust.
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And there is a tendency to kind of trivialize those things as you get older, to kind of be patronizing about those things.
PopWatch 2009
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Steyn then compared the torture memo controversy to the Miss California / gay marriage flap, all the while claiming he didn't want to "trivialize" the issue of interrogations.
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And that law in Europe is ridiculous; I think it is anyone's right to 'trivialize' the holocaust after the zionist-driven holocaust industry has produced endless books and movies and used the holocaust as justification for further crimes against humanity and jewish religious fundamentalism.
Dissident Voice 2009
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Mr. Obama certainly feels that it is his right to demonize and trivialize and misstate the concerns of his opponents.
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It's simply wrong to trivialize the atrocities committed by the Confederacy.
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