Trifling - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 11/02/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Trifling.

4 letter answer(s) to trifling

IDLE
  1. be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
  2. dormant
  3. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
  4. not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
  5. not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
  6. not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands"
  7. not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
  8. run disconnected or idle; "the engine is idling"
  9. silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"
  10. the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling; "the car engine was running at idle"
  11. without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"
MERE
  1. a small pond of standing water
  2. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
  3. being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"
  4. Lake

13 letter answer(s) to trifling

INSIGNIFICANT
  1. devoid of importance, meaning, or force
  2. not worthy of notice
  3. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
  4. signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"

6 letter answer(s) to trifling

MINUTE
  1. a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
  2. a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"
  3. a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
  4. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile"
  5. an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"
  6. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
  7. distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
  8. infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
PALTRY
  1. contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
  2. Little
  3. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
TOYING
  1. behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection"
  2. engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea"
  3. manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
  4. playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest

7 letter answer(s) to trifling

NOMINAL
  1. a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
  2. existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"
  3. insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"
  4. named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock"
  5. of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest rates"
  6. pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
  7. relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls"

5 letter answer(s) to trifling

PETTY
  1. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
  2. contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
  3. inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
  4. larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
  5. Most trivial

8 letter answer(s) to trifling

PICAYUNE
  1. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

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Advertising unit
Army engineers cycling around small lake
At leisure
At rest
Atomic
Attempt to support friend that's miserable
Attractive Romeo ditched as small-minded
Avoiding work
Avoiding work; lazy
B
Bare
Barely run, as an engine
Baseless
Basic in some respects
Between assignments
Casual
Changing sound to captivate rising artist
China with crack, not worth considering
Covered by maid, ledge gathering dust
Did less? Mostly this
Distance, not time - simple
Do nothing
Doing nothing
Empty
Engage in some activity as if it were a game
English lake
Exclusive of anything els
Existing in name only
Extremely small
Extremely small and quiet nursing home
Fallow
Far from developed pond dweller I own, by the sound of it?
Feeble attempt by friend
Fish around lake, being at a loose end
Fish round lake doing nothing
Former Enrolled Nurses only
French family member
French mother
French parent
Frequent Cleese co-star
Frivolous
Frivolous segment of panel discussion given up
Futile - lazy
Going nowhere
Goofing off
Groundless
Hardly worth mentioning
Having time on one's hand
Her Maj turned on yours truly, pure and simple
Hero can be heard in lounge
Hoskins had support cut back on the dole
Hoskins had undersized member? That's unfounded!
I had lake drained: it’s not working
I had left, abandoning newspaper without function
In name only
In neutral
Inactive
Inactive, impassive dog lacking exercise, originally
Indolent
Indulged in odd places between jobs?
Ineffectual
Inhale smoke from flame-thrower
Initially naval officers' mess is needing a list of names
Insignificant
Insignificant attempt to support friend
Insignificant conclusion to booklet in badly set type
Insignificant lake
Insignificant pond
Insignificantly small - token
Insultingly small
Jiffy
Jobless
Jobless indulged from time to time
Junior's favourite toy's lost its stuffing
Just
Just about setter on top
Just before midday comes around
Just chilling
Just loafing
Just lying around
Just sitting around
Just twiddling one
Just twiddling the thumbs
Keep the engine running when stationary
Kill time
Kind of hands that are "t
Kind of speculation
Kind of talk
Kind of technicality?
Knock about
Lake - French mother
Lake discovered in game reserve
Lake inside game reserve
Lake or pond
Lake, pond
Lay off
Lazy
Lazy brother abandoning check
Lazy leaving line in fish
Leave in neutral
Lied about being lazy
Lied about being unemployed
Like some chatter
Like some fears
Like some hands
Like some rumors
Like some thoughts
Like some threats
Lion man trained for virtually nothing
Little bit of time
Little buddy with taste
Little more than
Little time for memorandum
Loafing
Lounge
Mark time
Married before once, and no more than
Mate's attempt to be sorry
Mate's essay is far from great
Meagre
Meagre; trivial
Mean cutie runs away
Measly
Mega-lake, not one pool
Minor
Minuscule
Monty Python's Eric, b. 1943
Mooch about, indulged from time to time
Mothballed
Motionless
Mum is going outside home very little
Negligible
New arrangement for financing? It is irrelevant
New leader of Labour party is insignificant
Nice parent? Pure and simple
Niggling
No longer working
No more than
No more than 1,000 European Engineers?
Not active
Not busy
Not doing anything
Not engaged
Not going anywhere
Not grand
Not in active use
Not in operation
Not in use
Not occupied
Not playing
Not scheduled to compete
Not scheduled to play
Not wanting to work in Madrid, lecturing
Not working
Not worth bothering with financing — it is complicated
Not worth considering
Not worth having drink that goes up with tax
Note of who said what at a meeting
Nothing but
Nothing but water
Nothing doing?
Nothing more than
Nothing more than a pond
Nothing other than
Of no importance
Off
Off the job
Old boundary miles before lake in Lyme Regis
On break, say
On one's duff
Only a stretch of water
Out of action
Out of work
Out-of-work comedian?
Paid less, content to be shirking
Paltry
Panel discussion about imprisoning unemployed
Parisian parent
Petty
Picayune
Piddling
Piddling in crack, intimate at first
Pink-slip
Plain and simple
Plain wholesome ready-made sandwiches
Plan falling short, keeping fifty out of work
Playing
Playing together, except for number about one that's Scottish
Poetic pond
Pond, in Liverpool
Pool - pure and simple
Pool money before finishing
Pool nothing more
Poor friend facing test
Potentially going into sc
President Hollande's mother?
Pure
Python stands up during panel discussion
Really enthusiastic, great female singer turned up
Record tiny stretch of time
Regularly find clues not working
Regularly indulged in lounge
Relating to names
Run at the curb
Run in place
Run while standing
Run without moving
Said superstar is out of work
Scant
Second home acquired by mum
Shallow lake fish goes round
Shelved
Simple
Simple - French mother
Simple limits to mortgage rate
Simple: it’s distance, not time
Sitting on one's hands
Slacking, paid less - only half
Slight
Slothful extremes of island life
Small
Small number - at least one left
Small number by road regularly on call
Small shallow lake
Small-minded
Small-minded, rather lacking in character, ultimately
Small; short time
So-called revolutionary plan I monitor a little
Some avoid lectures, spend time doing nothing
Sovereign tucked into fish in lounge
Still
Taking a break from work
They have nothing to do with Eric introducing elements of a deal?
Thumb-twiddling
Time out of time - it's simple
Time piece?
Timely indicators of Trump's inadequacy?
Tiny
Tiny amphibian of mine can be heard
Tiny child receiving letter in Greece
Tiny couple twists at the end of dance
Tiny little child receiving letter from abroad
Tiny setter's amphibian is caught
Titular
Token
Trivial
Twiddling one's thumbs
Unemployed
Unemployed daughter visits French island
Unemployed Hoskins had beer, but no starter
Unemployed one gets appropriate payment, nothing less
Unemployed paid less at the centre
Unemployed superstar given a hearing
Unemployed superstar, by the sound of it
Unfounded, as gossip
Unimportant
Unimportant fish in loch? On the contrary
Unit of angular distance
Unit of Time
Unmeaningful
Unoccupied
Unused
Useless deli in difficulties
Useless fish in Lake? On the contrary
Very detailed
Very small
Very small interval — much less than an hour
Very small lion man shot
Very small number - very little, minus one million
Very small piece of cloth turns into fruitcake in illusion
Very small, quiet nursing home
Wait at the light
Waiting
Wave altered and hit bluff
Wee
What a getaway car may be
With curtailment in all, "in name only" put another way
Without addition or modification
Without additions or modifications
Without employment, indulged regularly
Work-shy
Work-shy superstar, they say
Worthless
You might hear someone admired for not working
Yours truly on lake
___ mortals

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