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

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

We all felt that it was simply piffle to talk copy-book to one so disappointed as our unfortunate brother.

From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by Nesbit, E. (Edith)