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

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

It’s simply piffle from someone who watches too much bad television.

From Slate • May 22, 2018

It's all very well for him to do the romantic and that sort of piffle, by Jove, but when you scrape the paint off he's just a receiver of stolen property and a common agitator.

From The Highgrader by Hutchison, D. C.