a trifle
Adverb

a trifle (not comparable)

  1. A little, slightly.
    Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent.
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 3, Chapter 23,
      He contemplated the large well-proportioned letters and final flourish, with his head a trifle on one side for an instant […]
    • 1957, Neville Shute, On the Beach (novel), New York: William Morrow, Chapter 4,
      He stared at the chart. “Maybe we’ll move away towards the west a trifle, and come down on Fiji from the north.”
    • 2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 411,
      “Let’s get on with it,” Sikiokuu replied, a trifle impatiently.
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