He thought, in this respect, this country had been trifled with, and any opinion expressed by them upon this subject ought to be done with a firmness of tone.
Buckingham might have known that such a spirit as this in Englishmen was not to betrifled with.
Paradise was trifled away; men increased and grew worse; and the Elohim, not yet accustomed to the wickedness of the new race, became impatient, and utterly destroyed it.
It is not easy to treat this subject with seriousness, and yet it is too solemn to be trifled with.
The whole prison was in a blaze, and the united demand of the prisoners for an explanation was not trifled with.
Some people trifled with her as a mere oddity, he said; but she was as shrewdly and sharply observant as any one he knew, and as long-headed as she was short-armed.
No; my informant is not a fool, or a person who supposes that I am lightly to be trifled with.
He squared his big shoulders, threw back his massive head, and, indeed, looked somebody who would be extremely unlikely to be trifled with, either by chance acquaintances or old friends.
What has been balked and wasted are all your various activities of measuring, comparing and co-ordinating; what has been trifled with are your expectations.
And as if to prove once more the truth of our general principle, you will have a hateful feeling of having been trifled with.
The powers of the Senate over appointments were trifledwith and disregarded by reappointing persons already rejected, and by refusing to communicate the names of others appointed during the recess.
So, if youth betrifled away without improvement, manhood will be contemptible, and old age, miserable.
So if youth be trifled away without improvement manhood will be contemptible and old age miserable.
It was further decreed that he must be carefully tended all the winter, and must not go to school again till he had quite got over the shock, since he was of a delicate frame that would not bear to be trifled with.
Isabel did not speak then, but as they stood a moment at their bedroom doors, she said: "Mother is not to be trifled with.
So Susan she sees hi'm not to be trifled with, h'and she tells Miss Helen, h'and she sends this note for you.
Mr. Stanton was not a man to be trifled with, and he told her some very plain truths.
You have trifledwith this 'Friends of the Poor' matter long enough.
I hope you gave them all they asked for, Son, and have not trifled with them.
It seems to make you very happy that your daughter's affections have been trifled with.
From her own point of view the great facts of her career were that Morris Townsend had trifled with her affection, and that her father had broken its spring.
Besides, bushmen are not to be denied or trifled with on such points.
For a moment Miles seemed to be making some mental calculation; then his hand dropped, and trifled with his watch-chain.
For the work ye have done and the risks ye have run I pardon you so far as to hear any excuse ye have to make for yourself; but make it plain and make it quick, for ye know I am not a man to be trifled with.
It would exceed the limits of this brief sketch were we to give the official history of the different scandalous ministers who thus disgraced themselves, and impiously trifled with one of our most sacred institutions.
At this swift rejoinder, Mr. Hardie felt like a too confident swordsman, who, attacking in a passion suddenly receives a prick that shows him his antagonist is not one to be trifled with.
I'm not to be trifled with: I'm not to be palavered: give me a thousand pounds of It this moment or I'll blow the whole concern and you along with it.
He had trifled with life, and must pay the penalty.
As he rode, he hummed to himself and trifled with his glove.
They had trifled with life, and were now rudely reminded of life's serious issues.
Also, he knew Crossley--never so "weak and soft" that he trifledwith unlikely candidates for his productions.
God's great pity in the blood of Christ must not be trifled with.
The President, it is charged, trifled with one or more of the retiring secretaries.
The constitution should not be trifled with--should not be invoked on every petty occasion--should not be proclaimed in danger when there is no danger.
But it is proper and fit to say that this moderation must not be mistaken for pusillanimity, nor be trifled with, as though it could not by any aggravation of wrong be moved from its propriety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trifled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
