They had an altercation about a trifle.
Don't lose your temper over such a trifle.
He heard his voice issuing coolly, a trifle ironically.
I was very loath to dispose of them for a trifle.
To him a murder charge was just a trifle which could easily be settled with some filthy lucre.
This is not an unheard-of view among environmentalists, and at times Mr Lynas’s protestations of heresy can seem a trifle self-serving.
A stout, hearty lass like Catherine, does not fall ill for a trifle; and that sort of people should not either.
And who was to say that such a remembrance might not sway the balance of their judgment just a trifle in his favor?
Down they went, feeling a trifle timid, for they seldom went to parties, and informal as this little gathering was, it was an event to them.
Every last trifle we touch and consume, right down to the paper on which this magazine is printed or the screen on which it's displayed, is not only ephemeral but in a real sense irreplaceable.
This figure of the study and the cloister, as Hester Prynne's womanly fancy failed not to recall, was slightly deformed, with the left shoulder a trifle higher than the right.
