What's the difference between flirting and trifling?

Flirting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flirt

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some in the industry expect buyouts from big internet companies like Google, which was rumoured to have flirted with WhatsApp earlier this year.
  • (2) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
  • (3) The woman from Lesotho alleges one guard who flirted with her in 2009 is still working there because a friend had complained to her about the same man when she was released from Yarl's Wood earlier this month.
  • (4) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
  • (5) Some bands delight in producing music that flirts with dangerous themes.
  • (6) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
  • (7) The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site , before the woman grabs the man by the neck and pulls him into the election booth as heavy breaths accompany a techno soundtrack.
  • (8) Burnham said “a language of xenophobia has entered the lexicon” of British politics and that many politicians were flirting with racism.
  • (9) Click here to view Ingrid Jungermann's "homoneurotic" Kickstarter-funded webseries sees "internally homophobic" lesbian Ingrid panic-spiral about everything, from attending trans parties to flirting with bar staff.
  • (10) Sapp flirts with apocalyptic rhetoric on the way to the conclusion that Trump recognizes no power higher than his own ego.
  • (11) At the same time, don’t we want our pop stars to at least flirt with irresponsibility?
  • (12) You’ve already seen the first sorties: since the separation of powers is the longest-standing of American ideas, the tweeted hostility to a “so-called judge” crosses a line only Richard Nixon ever flirted with.
  • (13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
  • (14) But if Facebook flirts too brazenly with commercial partners, it may see its growth slow down dramatically.
  • (15) They seem to flirt with the idea of replacing democratic institutions.
  • (16) Even one journalist in a gay bar has to work hard not to spoil the party, so the poor Russians who came in on Friday and Saturday night for a peaceful drink and a flirt must have felt like animals in a zoo.
  • (17) Both were then publicly flirting with a presidential bid but neither Palin nor Trump eventually threw their hat in the ring.
  • (18) He dropped out to set up Rawkus Records with friends, before his father enticed him into the family business, offering him the chance to run internet businesses at a time when the world's big media groups were first flirting with the online world.
  • (19) As a director, too, Hytner has continued to flirt with multiple identities.
  • (20) West Ham's manager of three years, who steered the team to a 13th-place finish this season after flirting with relegation for long periods, held talks with the co-chairman David Sullivan on Tuesday amid grumbling supporters' discontent at the style of football the side have played.

Trifling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trifle
  • (a.) Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a relatively trifling lead exposure they developed the signs of acute lead intoxication.
  • (2) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (3) So Inter sold him to Real Madrid at the end of the 1995-96 season for the trifling sum of £3.5million - less than they had paid for him.
  • (4) 1.15pm: Dave Espley is not a man to be trifled with: "I'd agree with Steven Gardner regarding the use of video technology for goalline reviews, but I'd go slightly further with regard to the retrospective punishment for cheating.
  • (5) Clementine and dark chocolate trifle (above) This recipe gives classic trifle a zingy twist with clementines and orange blossom; a great make-ahead dinner party dessert.
  • (6) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
  • (7) English friends had explained to me, not without pride, the importance of grumbling to the national character, but I still want to stress to every Londoner I meet that — take it from a visiting Los Angeleno — the tube exists, and that counts as no trifling achievement.
  • (8) But it is a trifle dispiriting even so to hear the education secretary parroting the same lines as his predecessors – even more so for teachers, I guess.
  • (9) This March, the proportions of loans taken by finance and property slumped all the way to a trifling 74.7%, while non-financial firms took a whopping 25.3%.
  • (10) It wasn't a baked Alaska, a fruit tart, a cream-laden trifle or a steamed treacle sponge.
  • (11) If you wish to have only a trifling risk group of 10% of all pregnant women, you can predict right only about 50% of all infants with low birth weight.
  • (12) Bake Off validates the small quiet dramas of the trifling everyday.
  • (13) As in most mutinous them-and-us industrial confrontations it had been simmering for years and then boiled over for what seemed the most trifling of reasons.
  • (14) "And he is at a loss whether to pity a people who take such arrant trifles in good earnest or to envy that happiness which enables a community to discuss them."
  • (15) I try to answer these letters, but compared to the stories I'm hearing, my experience has been trifling - as more than one correspondent has pointed out.
  • (16) With the menswear shows in the capital now on their sixth season, such trifles have their place even in the mainstream world of an Arcadia-owned brand.
  • (17) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
  • (18) Clegg was the deputy prime minister and would not jeopardise his relationship with the Conservative party over such a trifle.
  • (19) And what would become of my mornings in my little corner and my late nights scanning the TV channels, watching my crime shows, not a trifling thing?
  • (20) But it’s no trifle — especially given the governor’s national ambitions.

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