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
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
If you don’t look closely, or are in a reactive state of mind, it’s easy enough to write off the show as Cold War piffle, even propaganda for a world of bland “normalcy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
In the middle of the season, that is just a piffle.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2019
You politely designated them as fools, and what they said you characterised as piffle.
From Athalie by Frank Craig
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
Misther Madden says 'Piffle,' but Oi say where are they piffled to?
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel.
From The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling
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
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
British MPs sold their reputations for a piffling return—one MP submitted a claim for a hot drink he had bought in the House of Commons tearoom.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 9, 2011
Because markets for land are so ill-developed in Africa and governments so weak, rents are piffling: $2 per hectare per year in Ethiopia; $5 in Liberia.
From Economist ● May 5, 2011
The piffling toad steps away from her and says, “Non capisco! Ha!”
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
