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

They may sound like piffle, and perhaps they are, but they were formative.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

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

But this indulgence in "piffle" has led us away from the main entrance, and we must come back to the floor of the salon in which our reception was being conducted.

From A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by Bayne, S. G.