trifling
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
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Economic models assume cetaris paribus which means we don't have to think about minor, trifling discrepancies like mounting personal debt, declining living standards and non-existsnt wealth distribution. Number go up.
Antisemitic attacks on Polanski are beyond the pale, as they were with Miliband. However I don't think lying to hypnotherapy clients about credentials is trifling. People do it, but it's deeply unethical.
My Grandmother was born in 1925 and she already said Clarence Thomas was trifling and untrustworthy in the 1990's She also said you can't hang around a bunch of bad apples and expect not to get a spot on you!!!!
Dan Feltes is gutsy, while RFK Jr. is trifling
Today, access is temporarily protected. But the larger truth? They are testing how far they can go. We deserve more than temporary relief. It's trifling to constantly be back and forth between having rights and then…
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Trivial, or of little importance.
Trifling, apparently, was the circumstance that led to the restoration of Charles. But there is nothing really little or trifling in the government of God.
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(now, chiefly, AAVE) Good-for-nothing; shady or lazy; scrub.
For, really, as it is a trifling Age, ſo nothing but Trifles are valued in it. Men read none but trifling Authors, purſue none but trifling Amusements, and contend for none but trifling Opinions. A trifling Fellow is prefer'd, a trifling…
“Economic models assume cetaris paribus which means we don't have to think about minor, trifling discrepancies like mounting personal debt, declining living standards and non-existsnt wealth distribution. Number go up.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Antisemitic attacks on Polanski are beyond the pale, as they were with Miliband. However I don't think lying to hypnotherapy clients about credentials is trifling. People do it, but it's deeply unethical.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“My Grandmother was born in 1925 and she already said Clarence Thomas was trifling and untrustworthy in the 1990's She also said you can't hang around a bunch of bad apples and expect not to get a spot on you!!!!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Dan Feltes is gutsy, while RFK Jr. is trifling”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Today, access is temporarily protected. But the larger truth? They are testing how far they can go. We deserve more than temporary relief. It's trifling to constantly be back and forth between having rights and then having that rug pulled from under you.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
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