a trifle
a trifle
phrase
trifleYou can use a trifle to mean slightly or to a small extent, especially in order to make something you say seem less extreme.
[vagueness]As a photographer, he'd found both locations just a trifle disappointing.
'There we go,' said Diane, a trifle too cheerily.
His uniform made him look a trifle out of place.
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