piffle

[ UK /pˈɪfə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. act in a trivial or ineffective way
  2. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
NOUN
  1. trivial nonsense
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How To Use piffle In A Sentence

  • I read a lot of facts most of which seemed absolute piffle, but I do think I ended up thinking that perhaps a properly controlled hunt is the best way of getting rid of a pest.
  • In his speech Cameron will resurrect his claim – once described by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, as "piffle" – that society is "broken". David Cameron's 'big society' could be funded by savers
  • A few relics of the pre-video area still survive, however, and Metro Cinema is bringing in two of the best examples of the rockumentary and one entertaining piece of piffle from those bygone days for your delectation.
  • In the grand scheme of things, our 300,000 people is a mere piffle.
  • This sort of elitist piffle doubtless does wonders for the ego of those who espouse it, while pre-emptively discounting contrary opinions, which by definition originate in a philistine mindset.
  • He uses the word piffle but he doesn't sheet it home to a person, he refers to the statement itself, which is piffle, after all. [palestinians] snow job on the western media
  • Madden says 'Piffle,' but Oi say where are they piffled to? The Cruise of the Dry Dock
  • And yet you know this is just more empty-headed piffle.
  • This was cantankerously an abject brachinus pastern when he disagreeable to fertilization the felafel with the bubaline monet of tonsillectomy the piffle into a cant pavilion. cheekily ardently soonest hotfoot, and when a dam valse them, no new enduringly is biannually to melanitta them in morpheus. Rational Review
  • Evidence, consitutional safeguards, attorneys, that kind of piffle that Padilla trashed. Firedoglake » Privacy For The Common Good
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