Adjective : The extra expenses were negligible. From Dictionary.com.
I'm a bit disturbed that someone can go to jail for this kind of negligibility, though. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
In the ensuing hour I was reassured as to the negligibility of Emerson's wound. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Pharaohs]
There are studies from the latter half of that century that indicated a negative correlation between circumcision and genital infections (of a non-sexual nature), but the correlation has been seen to decrease to negligibility in modern, affluent cultures, where both education and product availability in personal hygiene are common. From Wordnik.com. [All kinds of ouch.] Reference
That dispensed with 89 per cent of the threat at a stroke, and by the time you had further discounted the salad eaters and the turkey and ham sandwich munchers and started to look at the number of people who would contemplate such a course of action without any lunch at all, then you were well into the realms of negligibility and bordering on fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]
We must do better than that if we are to get on the right side of negligibility. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916] Reference
I'm also bit disturbed that someone can go to jail for this kind of negligibility. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
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