triflingly

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adverb

In a trifling manner.

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Meanings

adverbtriflingly (comparative more triflingly, superlative most triflingly)

comparative more triflingly · superlative most triflingly

  1. In a trifling manner.
    1 more example

    […] I am apt to think, that a perſon, vvho vvas ready to give more knovvledge than he received, vvould be vvelcome vvherever he came. […] Hovv much more nobly vvould a philoſopher, thus employed, ſpend his time, than […] more triflingly ſedulous in the incatenation of fleas, or the ſculpture of cherry-ſtones.

    1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay XVIII”, in Essays. […], London: […] W[illiam] Griffin […], →OCLC, page 151

Origin

From trifling + -ly.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

flirtingly
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APA

triflingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triflingly

MLA

“triflingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triflingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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