trivial complaint

The people who came to the office didn't come with trivial complaints.

There was no satisfactory method of dealing with trivial complaints.

The Queen spends hours reading the 200 to 300 letters she gets a day, many of them trivial complaints about social services.

As for something possibly underlying seemingly trivial complaints, there need not necessarily be a repressed anything.

The railroad may give away some certificates for trivial complaints, he acknowledged, but it will build loyalty among riders.

To meet the target, managers were forced wastefully to expend resources on the most trivial complaints.

The meeting was winding down in a haze of fatigue, recriminatory posturing, and motions to hear trivial complaints.

For categories of inconsequential or trivial complaints identified in the agency guidelines, an agency may decide that no response is necessary.

Perhaps this sounds like a trivial complaint, but within that small, inescapable context I felt my demotion to be a deep, undeserved disgrace.

Beyond this trivial complaint, the Army and the Einsatzgruppen worked closely and effectively.

Even Honey had displayed brief annoyance at Markudian's constant interruptions and trivial complaints.

The Audiencia made trivial complaints against the viceroy to the Crown, such as that he arrived late at religious functions.

"Measles isn't a trivial complaint, you know, Mrs. Donaldson.

These problems range from trivial complaints such as land and fencing disputes through to the more serious, such as homicides and assaults.

However, his patients had insurance; he needs to support a family; and it is safer to see healthy patients with trivial complaints, especially if time is short.

She addressed correspondents as "Buster," "Honey" and "Bub," admonishing them to "kwitcherbellyachin' " over trivial complaints.

One of Grant's most memorable regular callers was Ms. Trivia, who aired her "Beef of the Week", a series of seemingly trivial complaints.

In his view, complaints were dealt with in a haphazard manner, the GMC caused distress to doctors over trivial complaints while tolerating poor practice in other cases.

We have all chided people who called ambulances for trivial complaints, some of whom arrive like Julius Caesar, smiling and triumphant astride their stretchers as they are wheeled through the emergency room's sliding doors.

There's no shame in taking to him some trivial complaint you'd never take to the out-patients' clinic, which entails getting an appointment card and waiting your turn, and where there's a quota of nine patients an hour.

In questioning her as to whether Miss Crabtree was expecting anyone, Martha relates her final conversation with Miss Crabtree, which includes trivial complaints about the household budget and the dishonesty of tradesmen, citing a supposedly bad sixpence she was given.

Overlooked and Ignored The condition is routinely overlooked or ignored "because physicians and dentists view it as a trivial complaint or a transitory problem" that cannot be treated, said Dr. Leo Sreebny of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, L.I.