Trifled

Examples

• She knew that he trifled with her; but she loved on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A superb woman, Mr. Blake, of the sort that are not to be trifled with--the sort with the light complexion and the Roman nose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• YOUR reputation, dearest Rachel, is something too pure and too sacred to be trifled with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Is it conceivable that I should allow myself to be trifled with in this way? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But be on your guard; I will not be trifled with! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The wretched man trifled with his glass,--took it up, looked at it through the light, put it down,--prolonged my misery. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Go out and ask who is never trifled with, and who is always treated with some delicacy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My happiness was now of a nature too pure to be trifled with, and I know I could not endure to have it intruded on by any commonplace remarks. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I answered it; and he told me in a fury he would not thus be trifled with. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I cannot trifle, or be trifled with. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away, by such shallow artifices as these? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I could have trifled with her, but it would not do; life and death were at stake. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Bennet, replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, you ought to know, that I am not to be trifled with. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Her fingers trifled nervously with a flower which I had picked in the garden, and which I had put into the button-hole of my coat. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I am not to be trifled with. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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