noun
verb
- Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently.
- synonyms: piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle
- Act frivolously.
- Consider not very seriously.
- usage: "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
adjective
- Not worth considering.
- usage: "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
- synonyms: negligible, paltry
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