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
They may sound like piffle, and perhaps they are, but they were formative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
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
The script’s insistence on the sanctity of the relationship between an artwork and its creator, and even of the relationships among artworks themselves, is some woo-woo, death-to–“The Death of the Author” piffle.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
"But this hand and kiss business is piffle."
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
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
They want £595 to watch the beach volleyball, though the "canoe sprint" is a piffling £295 – for an event you might not watch if it were taking place in your park boating lake.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 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
