trifling

" I know it seems trifling but always brings a smile to my face wherever I am, including work meetings.

Argue the convenience is not worth the privacy costs, but don't suggest the convenience is trifling.

I was going to point that out but it seems like such a trifling point to make when there's not even any defamation at hand.

I disagree in a trifling way with statements like The world needs C not Lisp, it is obvious to me that the world needs both C and Lisp.

Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

]With one trifling exception, the universe consists entirely of other people.

Eero’s body was hypersensitive to even trifling traces of EPO.

" because you do not piss off future clients with multi-billion dollar accounts over the trifling matter of a million here or there.

I'm curious to know why Argentina had to institute currency controls if waving a pen is such a trifling matter.

BoB was highly entrenched in Delve and things had basically stagnated, there was less of a massive war going on than trifling skirmishes on the outskirts of their fortress.

"We also paid a trifling sum of money for an option on participation in whatever the next thing the Flip creator does after he gets the grilled cheese thing out of his system.

Endless stories abound of people losing homes, savings frozen/confiscated, incarcerated, etc. over non-payment of seemingly trifling amounts.

Thousands of volumes have been written to record the acts of governments; the most trifling amelioration due to law has been recorded; its good effects have been exaggerated, its bad effects passed by in silence.

My least generous interpretation is she came with at most a scattered modicum of knowledge, gleaned from informal trifling and lacked confidence enough so, that saying she is new is a rounding error compared to how good she will get.

Kipling put it well: It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say: -- "We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that pays it is lost!

I'm sure you understand this and you say as much elsewhere in your comment; but your sentence appears to trivialize these actions by including them after a soothing "the only thing... purported to have done... to politely ask...", and dismissing their significance with "simple nerd-rage".Sure, this isn't a big deal in the larger scheme of things; but it isn't as trifling a deal as your comment's rhetorics make it out to be.

"\n\n And that is called paying the Dane-geld;\n But we've proved it again and again,\n That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld\n You never get rid of the Dane.\n\n It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,\n For fear they should succumb and go astray;\n So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,\n You will find it better policy to say: --\n\n "We never pay any-one Dane-geld,\n No matter how trifling the cost;\n For the end of that game is oppression and shame,\n And the nation that plays it is lost!