Sentence example with the word 'trifler'

trifler

amateur, dabster, dillydallier, faineant, goof-off, lingerer, lubber, philologaster, sciolist, slug, time waster

Definition n. one who behaves lightly or not seriously

Last update: June 15, 2015


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Before the English visit Voltaire had been an elegant trifler, an adept in the forms of literature popular in French society, a sort of superior Dorat or Boufflers of earlier growth.   [Please select]

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And Hugh degenerated immediately into a scoffing trifler who wished to give up science for art.   [Please select]

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Fox's Review in the 'Monthly Repository'; other Notices--Russian Journey--Desired diplomatic Appointment--Minor Poems; first Sonnet; their Mode of Appearance--'The Trifler'--M.   [Please select]

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I shall prove to you that I have not been altogether an idler and a trifler.   [Please select]

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The statesman slipped in for an instant between the trifler coming and the trifler gone.   [Please select]

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His productions, therefore, though incomplete, are not those of a literary trifler.   [Please select]

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And now---- The mate of the eagle was a trifler with peacocks and vultures.   [Please select]

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By nature he was a jester, trifler, and waster of time.   [Please select]

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The magazine was called the 'Trifler', and published in monthly numbers of about ten pages each.   [Please select]

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Llewellyn [1] Debt, Browning's mock defence of (in the 'Trifler') [1] Dickens, Charles [5] Domett, Alfred (incl.)   [Please select]

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There was in him a dispassionateness, a breadth, which seemed most strange in a trifler of the Court, in an exquisite--for such he was.   [Please select]

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