triflingly

adv

Etymology: From trifling + -ly.

1. In a trifling manner.

   “[…] I am apt to think, that a perſon, vvho vvas ready to give more knovvledge than he received, vvould be vvelcome vvherever he came. […] Hovv much more nobly vvould a philoſopher, thus employed, ſpend his time, than […] more triflingly ſedulous in the incatenation of fleas, or the ſculpture of cherry-ſtones.”