trifles, minutiae, irrelevancies, frivolities, inanities, banalities, idiocies, niceties, prattle, pontificating, peccadillos, folderol, inane, obsessions, nonentities, superfluity, picayune, mundanity, foibles, vexations, philosophise, vapidity, inconsequence, blather, pieties, disquisitions, pedantry, silliness, drivelling, snits, flatterers, banality, triteness, busywork, pompousness, sarcasms, platitudes, vainglory, palaver, foppery, superficiality, bromides, disputations, follies, journalese, hairsplitting, sordidness, tediousness, pointlessness, flummery, shoptalk, bloviation, civilities, vices, tommyrot, squabbles, polemics, commonplaces, salaciousness, effluvia, pettier, babble, distractions, attitudinizing, peradventure, ad nauseam, frippery, boringness, grandiloquence, kerfuffles, dilettantism, twaddle, insubstantiality, punditry, adulteries, technicalities, annoyances, prigs, mindlessness, snippiness, inconsequentiality, grubbiness, fustiness, absurdities, caviling, purposelessness, yammering, tawdriness, matters, unmentionables, digressions, prolixity, cogitation, fatuousness, sectionalism, mediocrities, crabbiness, meaninglessness, nowness, garrulousness, hyperboles, whatnots, trivia, nothings, courtesies, vanities, trifle, affectations, chitchat, pleasantries, quibbles, cares, cavils, conveniences

serious, trivial