He was a demanding boss who flew into rages over the most trivial mistake and rarely had praise for a job well done.

And that was a fairly trivial mistake, because it's not getting us anywhere.

An Alabama jury awarded huge libel damages to a local official for trivial mistakes in an advertisement that did not mention him.

In a sense, it's a trivial mistake.

But the system does not make any distinction between major problems and trivial mistakes.

He notes that, when his friends make even trivial mistakes in class, they respond by shutting off their senses of wonder and curiosity.

So I must have made some mistake, a stupid, trivial mistake.

He has never been willing to own up to mistakes, however trivial.

He'd pick on the others for no reason at all, harangue them until they made some trivial mistake, and then bawl them out.

There must be no trivial mistakes, Ellie said to herself.