trifler

The thing was so remote, and in itself so certain, sure, inexorable; a play of issues that held no part for a trifler like me.

His host considered this as if he found a serious flaw in it; after which he began again: "I never supposed you a trifler."

The knowledge and the industry of these gentlemen is a perpetual marvel to the ‘bellelettristic trifler.’

No, no, I am no trifler; and I advise you to walk up-stairs again, lest I prove this to your cost.

And what is there in my conduct or in my words that can justify Master Lyle in thus treating me as a trifler?