mere trifle's Usage Examples:

enjoyed Kern's acting "the story is so simpleminded that it remains a mere trifle".

It has the lip hardly visible, only a mere trifle expanded.

Mussolini was wounded only slightly, dismissing his injury as "a mere trifle", and after his nose was bandaged he continued his parade on the Capitoline.

indicate that whatever it was I was discussing it was something like a mere trifle or nothing really being of moment.

between lords and servants; but to have violated his oath he considered a mere trifle.

daily news critics and trade reviewers shrugged Horror Island off as a mere trifle, no more, no less; any criticism that it yielded stronger than this was.

a mere trifle .

there being a number of slaves brought from the interior and sold for a mere trifle.

"No such thing as a mere trifle".

All this, he said, was a mere trifle to him.

saw this dial in the stonemason's yard, for which Boulby asked a mere trifle.

Inhabitants of which are rich in Cattle and sell them by barter for a mere trifle.

Valuable items were sold for a mere trifle triggered by the panic leaving many men of fortune reduced to beggary.

assembled, Mac Da Thó boasts that all the food provided for the feast is a mere trifle for the Leinstermen.

reduced the fares to Silloth so low that the expense of travelling is a mere trifle.

Synonyms:

pud; pudding; tipsy cake;

Antonyms:

saddle; lodge; burden; dock;