piffle
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I defy you to tell me what this blithering piffle actually means.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Past administration GPRs, he added, “typically gush strategic-sounding piffle, exhausting readers with laborious defenses of the status quo. This one at least spared us that.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
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
They’re up to Caxley-Webster’s to tea; piffle water and sticky sponge-cake.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller
Setting a price ridiculously below dealer costs, knowing that a customer will not find anything cheaper elsewhere, and then "uploading" the package with piffles when the buyer returns.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew — I knew what was coming, when we bid on the Byfleet's keel — They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel!
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel.
From The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling
Misther Madden says 'Piffle,' but Oi say where are they piffled to?
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
Former economic advisor to the government of Jersey John Christensen said the amount of tax paid by high value residents was "piffling"
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Yet it went ignored while Sly Stallone’s piffling King Lear act in the mediocre Creed is hailed like the second coming.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2016
Set against the possible end of a 307-year union, that might seem a piffling difference.
From Economist ● Sep. 11, 2014
There is even a tiny one – a piffling four million times as massive as the Sun – at the heart of the Milky Way, the galaxy we call home.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2012
The piffling toad steps away from her and says, “Non capisco! Ha!”
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
