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
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
In the middle of the season, that is just a piffle.
From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2019
Then there is Harriet, who says, "Stow all that piffle."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.