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- noun Plural form of
triviality .
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Examples
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Cutting and pasting the same dumbshit word diarrhea about trivialities is so amateur.
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Since so many trivial events in the US get tremendous coverage while greatly important changes elswhere get sidelined, the ability of an individual news viewer to selectively say ‘enough, already!’ to adnauseum reporting on American trivialities is only fitting.
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If new management can bring innovation and PO workers can get a good deal Mandelson's plan could help get people thinking more about added value, fairness, and building a better tomorrow than nitpicking over short-term trivialities like phoney elections, recessions, and scapegoating the poor.
British Blogs 2009
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And, of course, the candidates aren’t mistaken for thinking that a focus on shallow trivialities is what wins elections.
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He felt too blue himself to take stock in trivialities.
DUTCH COURAGE 2010
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She is seen as a tough questioner unlikely to be caught up in trivialities.
Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008
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If you were being narky you might say journalists grandstand and bloggers get bogged down in trivialities.
The difference between journalists and bloggers « Squash 2006
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He felt too blue himself to take stock in trivialities.
Dutch Courage 1922
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I forget the Voice that cried 'Sleep no more!' and Poetry seems to me to have spoken her final word in what you would perhaps call trivialities about the
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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He felt too blue himself to take stock in trivialities.
Dutch Courage 1900
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