trife

¹

[ trahyf ]

adjective

1. characterized by trouble, struggle, desperation, etc.:

   I'm tired of poverty and trife living.

2. showing lack of regard for other people, decency, good sense, etc.; low or despicable:

   He used to be real trife, but the last few years he’s stepped up for his parents.

3. disgusting or off-putting:

   This chicken’s got no salt and it’s bloody in the middle—that’s so trife!

4. petty, shallow, insignificant, etc.:

   These “trife” details in karate like not raising your shoulders and keeping your elbows in aren't as silly as they seem.

   At the end of the day, all this trife crap is not what life is about.

noun

1. trouble; struggle:

   Too bad we’re not producing this stuff in this country, what with some of the trife we’re experiencing regarding trade.

   We have no trife with sensible gentlemen such as yourself who ask to engage in real conversation.

2. things, matters, ways of behaving or speaking, etc., that are shallow, contemptible, or off-putting:

   All I see here is the usual trife about how rich people are always wrong.

   At school he was cheating and bullying and trife like that.

3. trifle; a small amount or degree:

   I woke up around 4 am feeling that it might be just a trife too cool to sleep completely outside, and crawled into the tent.

   That kind of decor is a trife passé these days.

adverb

1. in a troubled or rough way, or in a way that treats others as unimportant:

   I don’t wanna keep living trife when I could learn to be better.

   You're running around acting trife like consequences don't exist.

TRIFE

²

[ trahyf ]

noun

1. none Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary or Federal Electoral Tribunal, a panel of judges that constitutes the electoral authority of Mexico, deciding disputed electoral outcomes, certifying elections, and declaring their winners.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trife¹

First recorded in 1985–90; of uncertain origin; perhaps shortened from trifling ( def ); alternatively, possibly connected to tref ( def )

Example Sentences

The lawyers will claim before the electoral tribunal, known as the TRIFE, that Pena Nieto violated the constitutional protections for free elections, Mejia said.

From Reuters

All these things may seem trife and immaterial, but when your good times teeter on these tiny aspects of surfing life ... it's just nice when sessions go down without a hitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Allaweil dese dings oonfolded,     Dere vas rows of anoder kind, Und drople in de wigwam     Enough to trife dem plind.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet de wild wind trife id onwarts,     Onwarts shdill der Breitmann go, Dill he cotch id py a rope-ent     Vot vas hangin town pelow.

From Project Gutenberg