piffle
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I defy you to tell me what this blithering piffle actually means.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
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
The script’s insistence on the sanctity of the relationship between an artwork and its creator, and even of the relationships among artworks themselves, is some woo-woo, death-to–“The Death of the Author” piffle.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
Rather piffle, I call that part about enjoying the speeches in the British Empire.
From Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham
Setting a price ridiculously below dealer costs, knowing that a customer will not find anything cheaper elsewhere, and then "uploading" the package with piffles when the buyer returns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Misther Madden says 'Piffle,' but Oi say where are they piffled to?
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
I knew — I knew what was coming, when we bid on the Byfleet's keel — They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel!
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel.
From The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling
Yet it went ignored while Sly Stallone’s piffling King Lear act in the mediocre Creed is hailed like the second coming.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2016
Set against the possible end of a 307-year union, that might seem a piffling difference.
From Economist ● Sep. 11, 2014
British MPs sold their reputations for a piffling return—one MP submitted a claim for a hot drink he had bought in the House of Commons tearoom.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 9, 2011
This stuff may seem piffling, but it all added to the feel of a Proper World Cup.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2010
The piffling toad steps away from her and says, “Non capisco! Ha!”
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
