piffle

Example Sentences

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I defy you to tell me what this blithering piffle actually means.

From The Wall Street Journal

They may sound like piffle, and perhaps they are, but they were formative.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Using typical Johnsonian language, he initially dismissed the claims as an “inverted pyramid of piffle” before other evidence emerged.

From Washington Post

He was also sacked from a post in the Conservative Party after he lied about having an affair, calling the allegations “an inverted pyramid of piffle.”

From Washington Post