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Definition of trifling : 1. Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
2. of Trifle

Synonyms:

lazy, vacant, small-minded, niggling, dawdling, inert, idle, unemployed, petty, coquetry, dalliance, slothful, unoccupied, miserable, flirtation, important, inactive, of no account, toying, indolent, sluggish, wasting time, flirting, flirt, inconsiderable

teeny, miserly, delicate, slight, scant, scanty, petite, diminutive, little, tiny, piddling, sparing, modest, dwarfish, stingy, wee, itty-bitty, toy, weeny, small, negligible, slim, deficient, teeny-weeny, microscopic, meager, minor, teensy, picayune, compact, pocket, smallish, spare, short, scrawny, niggardly, paltry, nugatory, baby, minute, bantam, miniature, puny, ungenerous, beggarly, minimal

measly, one-horse, banal, flyspeck, insipid, fiddling, irrelevant, insignificant, frivolous, trivial, inconsequential, unimportant, worthless, trite

Usage examples:

• Goertz gave the original into his secretary's keeping; but when the time came for laying the draft before the States- General, a trifling difficulty arose; the treaty was not to be found. - "Eve and David", Honore de Balzac.
• But Joe had finished with trifling. - "Then I'll Come Back to You", Larry Evans.
• " Cease this trifling," said the other, evidently ill at ease. - "The Amulet", Hendrik Conscience.