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"[T]he officer declared: "My warship has been transformed into a floating hotel for a bunch of trifling do-gooders."
I find it hard to believe an American would have used the word "trifling" but maybe I'm wrong.

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Etymology: from Old French trufer, trufler to mock, trick

Sounds fishy! It maybe true, but I think a man at his level would use the proper channels to get this issue resolved. This was printed in Telegraph (UK). It wouldn’t surprise me if a European wrote this in order to shape U.S. opinion.

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[em2vn]

Forty years ago while beginning to date, I had a father tell me not to trifle with his daughter.