

To meet the target, managers were forced wastefully to expend resources on the most trivial complaints.There was no satisfactory method of dealing with trivial complaints.Our obsession with cleanliness is no trivial matter.In contrast to what he had been fearing, it was a trivial matter.A trivial problem is easy to solve.
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Some ideas will be too trivial, some would be impossible to carry out.As far as social psychological concepts are concerned, the distinction between universal and particular is not a trivial one.In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters.She often loses her temper over trivial matters.Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets, such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter.From a human relations point of view, Janet had outsmarted Hazel by refusing to become a victim over a trivial matter.The issue of where the peace talks will be held may seem trivial, but to the participants it is very important.No, I don't think your question is trivial at all.People in them feel liberated from the trivial and the arbitrary.And that is one reason why this presidential election is beginning to look so transparent and trivial.► see thesaurus at unimportant Examples from the Corpus trivial a trivial sum Her feelings for Simon seemed trivial by comparison.

○ adjective UNIMPORTANT not serious, important, or valuable trivial problem/matter/complaint etc We were punished for the most trivial offences. After that he forced a quarrel on a trivial bit of hearsay (that Hamilton had said he had a ' despicable ' opinion of Burr) and Hamilton, believing as he explained in a letter he left before going to his death - that a compliance with the duelling prejudices of the time was inseparable from the ability to be in future neither wanted war and indeed Jefferson, throughout life, was the more.“There have been no changes as a consequence of the petition.”Īccording to NZQA 6,300 students were enrolled to sit the exam and the authority had received 13 complaints regarding it.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English trivial triv‧i‧al / ˈtrɪviəl / “If candidates have addressed the quote and integrated their ideas with it, then they will be given credit for the strength of their argument and analysis and will not be penalised for misinterpreting the word ‘trivial’.” “The language used in the question, such as the word ‘trivial’, was expected to be within the range of vocabulary for a NCEA Level 3 History student,” Kilkelly said. Kristine Kilkelly, NZQA deputy chief executive assessment officer, said the exam was written by experienced history teachers who had judged it suitable for year 13 students. “Trivial isn’t a word that you hear too frequently, especially not if you’re in Year 13,” Stadnyk said. Nothing Trivial What Is the Meaning of Primum Non Nocere (TV Episode 2013) photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos. trivial a fiddling sum of money a footling gesture our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war a little (or small) matter. Year 13 student Logan Stadnyk who took the exam told local media that at least half of his classmates thought trivial meant “significant”. More than 2,500 people have signed the petition, calling on the New Zealand Qualifications Authority to “recognise the true potential of the students and mark the essay based on the student’s own content and understanding of the event, many of which were different to what the word actually means.” An online petition claims the word trivial “caused much confusion” in the Wednesday exam and many students “were not particularly familiar with” the word.
