What is "a trifle"

Usage examples of "a trifle".

I had seen Ramses, of course, but because I was still a trifle sleepy I had not fully realized how he had got there until he told his story.

I grant you the fellow's a trifle, um, idealistic, and if you've taken against him I won't try to argue his suit--though he seemed perfectly unobjectionable to me--but I saw his letter.

I grant you the fellow's a trifle, um, idealistic, and if you've taken against him I won't try to argue his suitthough he seemed perfectly unobjectionable to mebut I saw his letter.

But just at the moment, Justen was a trifle more concerned about his own survival and well-being, and rather less worried about that of his robot.

I knew that if I phrased something a bit too adventurously, or stood a trifle too close to an open window in a tall building, or reached for a piece of fruit that had not been sterilized, you robots would rush in to protect me from myself.

You are rather too kind sometimes, and then just a trifle hasty when he tries your patience.

He had even a thought as he sat with his head averted that she might have shown a trifle more of distress, and it was almost with a reproach upon his lips that he turned to her.

In a week or two now, cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars, and also a trifle of gold, would be trickling in thin but steady streams all through the commercial veins of the kingdom, and I looked to see this new blood freshen up its life.