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

In retrospect, was Blinken’s vision of music as a vehicle of global transformation a blip and a piffle, a charmingly naïve indulgence?

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2019

Perhaps it's too tall an order for such a piffle of a comedy, but “Johnny English Strikes Again” is at odds with itself when it comes to its messaging.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2018

You know I hate messing my hands with that sort of piffle.'

From A Great Man A Frolic by Bennett, Arnold