Crossword clues for trifler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trifler \Tri"fler\, n.
One who trifles.
--Waterland.
Wiktionary
n. a pewterer, who produced small pewter utensils, like saltcellars.
WordNet
n. one who behaves lightly or not seriously
Usage examples of "trifler".
Paris, which is now more zealous in the study of antiquity than in the subtle investigation of truth, did English subtlety, which illumined by the lights of former times is always sending forth fresh rays of truth, produce anything to the advancement of science or the declaration of the faith, this was instantly poured still fresh into our ears, ungarbled by any babbler, unmutilated by any trifler, but passing straight from the purest of wine-presses into the vats of our memory to be clarified.
On the first day the trifler is well wrapped, with strong cords and hung upside down from a flagpole at a height of twenty stories.
On the second day the trifler is turned right side up and rehung from the same staff, so as to empty the blood from his head and prepare him for the third day.
On the third day the trifler is unwrapped and waited upon by a licensed D.
On the fifth day the trifler is comforted with soft fine garments and flagons and the attentions of lithesome women so as to make the shock of the sixth day the more severe.
On the sixth day the trifler is confined alone in a small room with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
On the eighth the trifler is slid naked down a thousand-foot razor blade to the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
On the tenth day the trifler is confined alone in a small room with the works of Teilhard de Chardin and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Wagner, westward bring thy heavenly art, No trifler thou: Siegfried and Wotan be Names for big ballads of the modern heart.
The eloquent trifler, whose stock of words has been accumulated by a pair of light fingers, would stand denuded of his plausible pretences as soon as it were seen how roguishly he came by his eloquence.
In vain did journals and speakers of the opposition represent him as a lightminded trifler, who amused himself with frivolous story-telling and coarse jokes, while the blood of the people was flowing in streams.
To follow the plans suggested by these thoughts, I saw that I must avoid what is called bad company, that I must give up my old habits and pretensions, which would be sure to make me enemies, who would have no scruple in representing me as a trifler, and not fit to be trusted with affairs of any importance.
I have longed for some better object of worship than the trifler of fashion, or the yet more ignoble minion of the senses.
I would sweep away these triflers, but long thought shows me the task outweighs my resources.
These dainty triflers made sulking as impossible amongst them as philosophy in a ballroom.