See trifling on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2020 January 31, Donald Boone, Beast Master, Newman Springs Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "After all my loyalty of not letting Ice Mike['s] hoes choose me when I didn't even have any hoes[, he let one of mine abandon me]. Now I needed some support to keep this trifling hoe focused on getting bond money to get me out of jail.",
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[
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]
}
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"roman": "neznačitelen",
"sense": "trivial",
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"lang_code": "ca",
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"lang_code": "nan-hbl",
"roman": "khu-khu",
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"lang_code": "cmn",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "mitätön"
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{
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"code": "ka",
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"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "umnišvnelo",
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"word": "უმნიშვნელო"
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"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "mc̣iri",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "მწირი"
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"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "mcire",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "მცირე"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "unbedeutend"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "fánach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "suarach"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"sense": "trivial",
"word": "insignificante"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
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"sense": "trivial",
"word": "levis"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "frīvolus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "sublestus"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "nevažen",
"sense": "trivial",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "неважен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "neznačaen",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "aweke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "kūrapa"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"lang_code": "ota",
"roman": "yesir",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "یسیر"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"lang_code": "fa",
"roman": "piš-e pâ-oftâde",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "پیش پا افتاده"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "trivial"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "insignificante"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "mărunt"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "neînsemnat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "pustjáčnyj",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "пустя́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "mélkij",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "ме́лкий"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "neznačítelʹnyj",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "незначи́тельный"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"lang_code": "sa",
"roman": "tuccha",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "तुच्छ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "trivial"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "de pitiminí"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "de chichinabo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "de chicha y nabo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "sin importancia"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "obetydlig"
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{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"lang_code": "ta",
"roman": "uppu peṟāta",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "உப்பு பெறாத"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "trivial",
"tags": [
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},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "trivial",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "abidik gubidik)"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "dibwys"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"sense": "trivial",
"word": "diwerth"
}
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"Terms with Italian translations",
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"Terms with Macedonian translations",
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95,
104
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"ref": "1845, George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman:",
"text": "He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.",
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"The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour."
],
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"frivolous",
"frivolous"
]
],
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]
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "the act of one who trifles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Leichtfertigkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "the act of one who trifles",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "the act of one who trifles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "áilleagánacht"
}
],
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"Terms with Macedonian translations",
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