Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle. Char. Oh! Sir Callaghan, I will admit of no excuse.
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Bagatelle
//ˌbæɡəˈtɛl//
Synonyms for "bagatelle" (113 found)
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55 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- дреболия noun (trifle)
Catalan
1 entries- bagatel·la noun (trifle)
Dutch
2 entries- kleinigheid noun (trifle)
- onbenulligheid noun (trifle)
Esperanto
1 entries- bagatelo noun (trifle)
Finnish
4 entries- bagatelle noun (game)
- bagatelli noun (literature or music)
- fortuna noun (pin bagatelle)
- pikkuseikka noun (trifle)
French
2 entries- bagatelle noun (trifle)
- broutille noun (trifle)
German
4 entries- Bagatelle noun (trifle)
- Belanglosigkeit noun (trifle)
- Geringfügigkeit noun (trifle)
- Kleinigkeit noun (trifle)
Hungarian
3 entries- apróság noun (trifle)
- bagatell noun (trifle)
- bagatell noun (literature or music)
Italian
4 entries- baggianata noun (trifle)
- banalità noun (trifle)
- bazzeccola noun (trifle)
- cosina noun (trifle)
Latin
1 entries- apinae noun (trifle)
Polish
2 entries- bagatela noun (trifle)
- bagatela noun (literature or music)
Russian
4 entries- багате́ль noun (literature or music)
- безделу́шка noun (trifle)
- ме́лочь noun (trifle)
- пустя́к noun (trifle)
Spanish
4 entries- bagatela noun (trifle)
- bagatela noun (literature or music)
- billar romano noun (game)
- chuchería noun (trifle)
Swedish
4 entries- bagatell noun (trifle)
- petitess noun (trifle)
- småsak noun (trifle)
- struntsak noun (trifle)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
[…] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]
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The repayment of the cost of the western part of the road, whatever it might be, would be a mere bagatelle, for the older provinces would have been enriched by the stimulus given to business by the opening up of the plains,[…]
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They'd purchased a little house in the eighth arrondissement in Paris that for them was just a bagatelle, since they rarely lived there.
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