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 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

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

From Slate • May 22, 2018

The dear lady who delights in "piffle," and to whom "pifflage" is the very breath of life, had also her niche in our affairs.

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