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

In the middle of the season, that is just a piffle.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2019

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

Perhaps it's too tall an order for such a piffle of a comedy, but “Johnny English Strikes Again” is at odds with itself when it comes to its messaging.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2018

“You can’t imagine,” Sydney exclaimed, “that the people downstairs will be such drivelling asses as to believe piffle like that.”

From Anna the Adventuress by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)