triflingly

English

Etymology

From trifling +‎ -ly.

Adverb

triflingly (comparative more triflingly, superlative most triflingly)

  1. In a trifling manner.
    • 1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay XVIII”, in Essays. […], London: […] W. Griffin […], →OCLC, page 151:
      […] 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.

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