Trifling vs Pifling - What's the difference?
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Pifling has no English definition.
trivial, or of little importance
* 2005 , .
idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
Pifling is likely misspelled.
Pifling has no English definition.
As an adjective trifling
is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling
is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.trifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.
