triflinglyadv.
In a trifling manner or degree.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adverb]
dallyingly?1545
triflingly1579
toyishly1581
light-headed1639
light-headedly1713
flippantly1758
flightily1780
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adverb]
unsignificantly1644
insignificantly1651
unmeaningly1733
triflingly1759
inexpressively1823
meaninglessly1823
pointlessly1827
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > to a trifling extent
inconsiderably1727
triflingly1865
insubstantially1972
1579 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) vii. vi. f. 127 See that thou swearest not..falsely and vntruely, eyther vainly and trifelingly.
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 123 You deale too triflinglie with your ignorant Reader.
1759 O. Goldsmith Enq. Present State Polite Learning ii When philosophy became abstruse, or triflingly minute.
1763 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) I. 173 However triflingly this affair may have been talked of, it is, in reality, of very serious and general consequence.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming vi He had winced triflingly at one or two expressions.
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