[
UK
/pˈɪfəl/
]
VERB
- act in a trivial or ineffective way
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
NOUN
- trivial nonsense
How To Use piffle In A Sentence
- But, in practice, a government can make up any old piffle and call a poll to suit its own agenda.
- 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.