1. Don't trivialise the seriousness of the issue!

2. I don't want to trivialise the problem, but I do think there are more important matters to discuss.

3. But the effect is constantly to trivialise the engineer's professional status.

4. The police say it trivialises the rave drugs scene and shouldn't be on sale.

5. Issues of life and death also ride the roller coaster in the same trivialising way.

6. She told me she would never trivialise my pain, that it must have been horrible for me, and that it was just as valid a reason as hers.

7. Otherwise the powerful visual impact of television would distort and trivialise.

8. In contrast, some unenlightened free-thinkers are not enthusiastic to learn and think deeply enough, who thus generalise and trivialise others' belief and thought systems.

9. Scientific knowledge of climate change, he says, is "something we distort and trivialise at our peril".