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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | balderdash, fiddle-faddle |
| Type of | bunk, nonsensicality, nonsense, meaninglessness, hokum |
Examples of piffle
piffle
Crivvens, I suffer enough piffle from you shower about Breaking Bad and Mad Men.
From the independent.co.uk
For how is Beijing to reply to something like the piffle I have suggested above?
From the time.com
Some readers in Britain will think this is all piffle, and I have gone native.
From the economist.com
To CPAC, the fact that these two men managed to win statewide office is just piffle.
From the sfgate.com
Our view, based on talking to retailers and consumers, is that it's a load of piffle.
From the guardian.co.uk
Piffle, says Vyacheslav Nikonov, a Kremlin-friendly political analyst.
From the economist.com
Other holiday films would take some of the pressure off this joyless, soul-dead piffle.
From the freep.com
The wafflier the piffle, the more sharply Mr Nicholson wields his skewer.
From the economist.com
It was a day of monumental piffle on the campaign trail in Britain.
From the time.com
- Balderdash: trivial nonsense
- Chatter: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- Act in a trivial or ineffective way
- (piffling) fiddling: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; " ...
- Nonsense, foolish talk; To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner; To waste, to fritter away
- (piffling) unimportant
- 1. nonsense; rubbish; worthless and insincere talk. 2. (as an exclamation) disbelief; scorn.
- Okay this is mockney NEVER heard this used
- Talk or act feebly, trifle
