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Definition of Trifled
1. trifle [v] - See also: trifle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifled
Literary usage of Trifled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"This is the second serious difficulty which has grown out of the loose, not to
Bay careless manner in which the state constitution is trifled with ..."
2. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1916)
"A more unsatisfactory criminal trial from a legal point of view could not well
be conceived. The majesty of the law cannot safely be trifled with, ..."
3. The Reign of Henry VIII from His Accession to the Death of Wolsey by John Sherren Brewer, James Gairdner (1884)
"He had complained already of the waywardness, delay, and indecision of the
Emperor's council. In no mood to be trifled with, the Cardinal wrote in the ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1861)
"... granted the ladies of the nineteenth century trifled their lives away instead
of being a distinct race from all the ages that had gone before. NO. CIX. ..."
5. The Manuscripts of the Earl Cowper, K. G.: Preserved at Melbourne Hall by John Coke, Thomas Coke, Francis Thomas De Grey Cowper Cowper, William Dashwood Fane (1888)
"... arc no way concerned for the Corporation of Derby, and I know no other reason
of showing them respect, since they have trifled with yon. ..."
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