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ˈtriflingly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a trifling manner or degree.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 126 See that thou swearest not..falsely & vntruely, or vainely & triflingly. 1601Deacon & Walker Answ. to Darel 123 You deale too triflinglie with your ignorant Reader. 1759Goldsm. Polite Learn. ii, When philosophy became abstruse, or triflingly minute. 1763Wilkes Corr. (1805) I. 173 However triflingly this affair may have been talked of, it is, in reality, of very serious and general consequence. 1865G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming vi, He had winced triflingly at one or two expressions. |