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

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

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

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.