Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To toy with.

  2. (transitive)To mock; to treat lightly.

Examples

14 sentences

  1. Tom isn't to be trifled with.

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  2. Tom is not to be trifled with.

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  3. Tom isn't a man to be trifled with.

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  4. Don't trifle with such serious matters.

    deMach keine Scherze über solche ernsten Angelegenheiten. — Tamy

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  5. This matter must not be trifled with.

    deMit der Angelegenheit sollte nicht gespielt werden. — Tamy

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Forms

trifles with, trifling with, trifled with, trifled with
Base formtrifle with · to trifle with
3rd person singulartrifles with
Present participletrifling with
Past simpletrifled with
Past participletrifled with

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytrifle with
he, she, ittrifles with

Past simpleLesson

all personstrifled with

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave trifled with
he, she, ithas trifled with

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill trifle with

Synonyms

1 synonyms
sportA1

Word family

1 related words
Deriveduntrifled with

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tricycletriertrifleC2triggerB1trigonometrictrigonometry

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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