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  1. triflesnoun

    Plural form of trifle.

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  1. trifles

    Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. In the original performance, Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. The play is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks. Written during the first wave feminist movement, the play contrasts how women act in public and in private as well as how they perform in front of other women versus how they perform in front of men.

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  1. Trifles

    Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted from the play a year after its debut. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 8, 1916. In the original play, Glaspell played the role of one of the characters, Mrs. Hale. It is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks.

Anagrams for trifles »

  1. filters

  2. filtres

  3. frislet

  4. lifters

  5. stifler

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trifles in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trifles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of trifles in a Sentence

  1. Joseph Addison:

    What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  2. William Shakespeare:

    And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.

  3. California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence":

    #3533. The law disregards trifles.

  4. Queen Victoria, in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848:

    Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  5. Arthur Schopenhauer:

    It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

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