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.
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  • 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
  • `Are you certain, Signior Lampone, that this is not so much piffle to put us all in a maze? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Will you stop interrupting me with such piffle?
  • AOL's spokesman An analyst sympathetic to AOL even used the word "piffle" to dismiss the grave concerns of the organizations, which come from all points on the political spectrum and represent millions and millions of supporters: Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives
  • Cotton, he had neither worked for the Perry nor yet left it alone, but loafed about with Cotton as usual, and piffled with the work for the Acton's Feud A Public School Story
  • This will be easy enough if you're a regular reader and thus fairly familiar with the sort of piffle I write here - but even if this isn't the case, give it a go.
  • The dear lady who delights in "piffle," and to whom "pifflage" is the very breath of life, had also her niche in our affairs. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
  • I won't mention what this trite, simplistic, sloganeering piffle moves me to, but it has nothing to do with naming children.
  • While I was waiting for him to call, I grew more and more afraid that he'd get angry at me for wasting his time with piffle.
  • But this indulgence in "piffle" has led us away from the main entrance, and we must come back to the floor of the _salon_ in which our reception was being conducted. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
  • He tells us that Green apologised to his England team-mates for his elementary blunder straight after the match but reckons that West Ham's sometime-shot-stopper shouldn't have bothered because, according to Owen, who appears to have spotted a deviation in the trajectory of Clint Dempsey's piffler that no one else saw, the goal was all down to the new-fangled ball. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • I guess in scary times such as those that are upon us now, we need diverting bits of piffle to raise our spirits.
  • They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel! Verses 1889-1896
  • They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel. The Seven Seas
  • I can't keep writing this piffle about this area alone, you know.
  • It isn't the sort of promotional piffle that usually finds its way onto DVD releases.
  • Of course it is piffle, but not without a streak of crazy intelligence.
  • So much for the strategic plan and the visionaries who drafted it, not to mention subsequent strategic plans whose piffle is somewhat more restrained, but no more helpful.
  • Talking sentimental piffle, he staggers over to Isobel before I had time to react.
  • In his speech Cameron will resurrect his claim - once described by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, as "piffle" - that society is "broken". The Guardian World News
  • The month after the startling triumph of a brainy presidential candidate, with the economy tanking and Texas staring at a $9 billion budget shortfall, our piffler-in-chief, Gov. The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue
  • It always bemuses me when people get upset about supercilious piffle like good manners but dont get upset about important things like radical islam, Neathergate, EUSSR, the mps expenses scandal. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • We reject all your "passkey" piffle, point to the bankruptcy of your "moral value," and contend that the presence of even the most basic skills of ethical evaluation is vastly preferable to your line of crap. An Open Letter to John C. Wright
  • I have long been of the opinion that a considerable amount of piffle is spoken and written about the Irish language and the place and status it should have in our culture.
  • And yet you know this is just more empty-headed piffle.
  • Yeah, I know, it's piffle, but it gives me a way to go forward.
  • `Are you certain, Signior Lampone, that this is not so much piffle to put us all in a maze? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • But, in practice, a government can make up any old piffle and call a poll to suit its own agenda.
  • Don't want to pay actual hard earned money for that kind of piffle! Sound Politics: Floyd McKay Flirts With Bigotry
  • The perpetual precocious adolescent flitting about mothlike, creating trifles, feuilletons, elegant piffle.
  • Nitte Santosh Hegde, who has cast the first stone, is not to be sniffed at; his pedigree not to be piffled with. Churumuri
  • You softy -- you piffler -- you will never have had enough! Touch and Go
  • 'The entire situation is piffle ,' said the scientist between his teeth. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • While we read these feeble arguments, which the newspapers would call piffle, how can we escape the conviction that evolution is in desperate need of argument? The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
  • 'The entire situation is piffle ,' said the scientist between his teeth. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • His conclusion may be largely correct - how he claims to arrive there is a pyramid of piffle.
  • Can it really be true that he himself pens this trite piffle?
  • But there's a daunting heap of whimsical fairy-land nonsense and idiotic eastern-flavoured piffle to struggle through before you get to the bits you're likely to remember.
  • Piffle mate, would you go in a car while the driver is smoking the stuff?

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