I didn't lose it and remained a trifler in passion.

Drawn to such a man, could the girl possibly shift her affections to a trifler like himself?

What an impertinent trifler the young man was!

Hall can't stop us agreeing with Auden that Max was a trifler.

You are defended from being a trifler.

"As I thought; a drunken trifler, already infamous for the misrule of his own petty domain.

Unquestionably, it gripped a small revolver, and Yeddo was no trifler with such a weapon.

Genius hitherto has been shamefully misapplied, a mere trifler.

Though people were no doubt right to call him a trifler, fate had dictated stranger things than that he fix his affections upon Rokunokimi.

That polite trifler is fond of a word which he coined himself--'Serendipity.'

The trifler is roused into a hero, and the hero again reposes into the trifle.

The headmaster was not amused at this diversion from studying the classics, calling him a poco curante (trifler) in front of the boys.

He is a moth singed, that is all--the trifler with women thought he was a wasp.

He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant.

'Volatile trifler!'

"I am a steadier and soberer person than I used to be, and it astonishes me that you still think me a trifler.

"As political affairs are the highest and most extensive of temporal concerns, the mimick of a politician is more busy and important than any other trifler.

Then as she remembered the past the felt a scorn for her weakness and such a revulsion of feeling that she cried out passionately: "He is a trifler.

Malone's hot blood flushed to his head as he thought of this trifler, this insect, coming between mankind and a message of instruction and consolation descending from above.

In her place Madam de Longueville would have been a mere trifler, in Madam de Longueville's situation she would have governed the state.

Even his friend Richard Henry Dana Jr., questioned Lowell's abilities, calling him "very clever, entertaining & good humored... but he is rather a trifler, after all."

I have had my pen in my hand to begin a letter to you almost every day since you left Bath, but have always been prevented by some silly trifler or other.

This lasted till a violent cough, seizing and laying him up, deliver'd me from this most innocent and insipid trifler, for I never heard more of him after his first retreat.

In the parliamentary session that followed Diefenbaker's 1957 victory, the Liberals were certain they could capitalize on Hees's reputation as a trifler to demonstrate to the nation the weakness of the neophyte Conservative cabinet.

Indeed, the good sense which I have met with, among the poor women who have had few advantages of education, and yet have acted heroically, strongly confirmed me in the opinion that trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.