Sentence examples for trifling at best from inspiring English sources

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The chairman of the committee, the Queensland senator Ian Macdonald, criticised the Guardian for publishing the files and said the reports were over-dramatised – "most of these were trifling at best" – while also telling the committee he hadn't read them.

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However this is a business, with high stakes, even lives, at risk, and it should not be trifled at.

At best, the show is a cheery trifle and a historical curiosity, with a gifted cast, spiffy costumes by David Toser and a fringe- and flower-filled post-Victorian set by James Morgan.

At best, people will be impressed by your ability to solve the puzzle, and at worst, they might think you are a trifle AFFECTED.

At best.

At best periodically.

tepid at best.

Silver at best.

At best, nothing.

A curiosity at best.

"At best, they're O.K.

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