Dictionary Entry
A little, slightly.
In a Sentence
“Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent.”
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Poetry examples for “a trifle”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →HALL I go all my bright days singing,
(A little pallid, a trifle wan)
The failing note still vainly clinging
Read full poem →Ah, what a trifle is a heart,
If once into love's hands it come!
Read full poem →shadow of public thought Forgive me for vexing
you, and making a Trojan horse of such a trifle, both
with respect to the matter in question, and myself;
Read full poem →Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and
still pass on.