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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
trifle .
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Examples
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A worthy henchman, as indignant as was _Sam Weller_ when he found his beloved master's name trifled with, writes to ask me, "Ain't nobody to be whopped for takin 'this here liberty, Sir?"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 Various
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He was sure they must have 'trifled' a great deal, or they would have accomplished more than they had.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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He was sure they must have "trifled" a great deal, or they would have accomplished more than they had.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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He was a real power in the party, someone not to be trifled with.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He was a real power in the party, someone not to be trifled with.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He was a real power in the party, someone not to be trifled with.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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These guys are at the top of their game and not to be trifled with.
Interior Secretary Salazar lies about drilling peer review. | RedState 2010
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They're also aware that baby boomers are a large and powerful voting bloc, not to be trifled with.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Deficit Hysteria: Washington's War on the Young RJ 2011
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They're also aware that baby boomers are a large and powerful voting bloc, not to be trifled with.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Deficit Hysteria: Washington's War on the Young RJ 2011
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It shows a young woman pulled dead from the Thames, the locket clasped in her hand a clear indication that she has been trifled with by some heartless cad.
In Search of a Masterpiece by Christopher Lloyd – review 2011
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