piffle

Example Sentences

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I defy you to tell me what this blithering piffle actually means.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

For more than two hours, it pelts you with piffle so egregious — not just puns but also dad jokes, double entendres and booby-trapped one-liners — that, forced into submission, you eventually give in.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

If you don’t look closely, or are in a reactive state of mind, it’s easy enough to write off the show as Cold War piffle, even propaganda for a world of bland “normalcy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2019

In the middle of the season, that is just a piffle.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2019

That is the sort of piffle that is supplied gratis to the newspapers in this country.

From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman