trifling

"A piece about alienation might feel very trifling next to a piece about gun violence in some ways," said Yuval Sharon, who directed the original production.

To state the obvious, the big picture is all this is trifling and academic because the government won by a million miles, with a majority of 120.

“Whether the special counsel’s office was ‘established by Law’ is not a trifling technicality,” he wrote.

The arguments that advocates cited in a Jan. 8 story by my colleague, education reporter Howard Blume, are well-meaning but trifling.

"Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking."